S2E2 - Amanda Richardson, CEO CoderPad - On a Mission to Fix Hiring

Amanda Richardson is CEO of CoderPad, an online talent assessment platform used by companies such as Spotify, LinkedIn, Shopify, Lyft and many others. In just four years as CEO, she has led the company's growth in 160+ countries, over 4000 customers doing over 3 million assessments per year. Amanda started her career as an equities analyst on Wall Street, but she wanted to "be in the room where it happens". This brought her to Silicon Valley starting her journey as a product leader to CEO.

Key Highlights:

- Importance of humor in the workplace
- Hiring people with skills and "not BS"
- Job search advice: Go for the job you really want
- "Show and tell" approach to job interviews and hiring
- Complaining about Product & Engineering is one way to get the PM job :-)
- Advice for PMs: "The engineers are fine. They don't need you."
- Formulating Product & GTM strategy to go up against Microsoft
- Defining the role you want for higher impact 
- Skills to develop after becoming CEO
- Say YES and figure it out. Be in the space of possibilities

Connect with Amanda Richardson:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahartrichardson/

Referenced in this episode:

Bill Beer, Partner at Daversa Partners
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