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I’m a Google product manager who mentors 10 people a month. Here’s how I pick mentees, based on their messages and attitude.

I’m a Google product manager who mentors 10 people a month. Here’s how I pick mentees, based on their messages and attitude.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sonakshi Pandey, a cloud computing product manager at Google in Seattle. It has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified her employment history.I was three years into my career as a software engineer when I realized I wanted to challenge myself.I loved coding but was keen on a role that was less desk-bound and encouraged me to meet people and speak in public, something that made me anxious because I have always been an introvert.I found that a solution architecture role would be a good entry point, and…
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Democrats will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024. Here’s a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.

Democrats will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024. Here’s a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.

In the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats defied political expectations by holding on to their Senate majority, with every incumbent securing reelection and then-Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman flipping the open seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.The upper chamber in January 2023 then shifted from its previous 50-50 split — with Senate control in 2021 and 2022 resting on Vice President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking abilities — to a 51-49 majority led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. And despite Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema switching from the Democratic Party to register as an Independent late in 2022,…
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American parents with young children say they haven’t felt this financially insecure in nearly a decade. Here’s why.

American parents with young children say they haven’t felt this financially insecure in nearly a decade. Here’s why.

The financial well-being of American parents with young children is plummeting, highlighting how unaffordable childcare costs have become.The Federal Reserve published its annual Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking on May 21. The survey, which collected answers from 11,000 people in October 2023, examines the economic well-being of US households and potential financial risks.While the report said people's overall financial well-being was "nearly unchanged" between 2022 and 2023, some groups "continued to experience financial stress at higher rates than others." That included parents with children under 18. athima tongloom/Getty Images The percentage of parents with children under 18 who felt…
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The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

This has done little to deter a growing list of other business moguls who have also expressed interest in acquiring the app, which has been under government scrutiny in the US for four years over alleged national security concerns stemming from its Chinese ownership. One of them is former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, who said earlier this week he too was assembling a group of investors to make a bid for TikTok. He first hinted about the plan in March before the divestiture bill passed into law.Mnuchin told Bloomberg he understands that the Chinese government is unlikely to allow ByteDance…
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When the crowd leaves Trump’s hush-money trial, the judge spends his day in a very different kind of court

When the crowd leaves Trump’s hush-money trial, the judge spends his day in a very different kind of court

For the past six weeks, the person in the chair has been the former president of the United States.It is padded and made from weathered leather. The former president, who is also the presumptive Republican nominee in the next presidential election, makes himself comfortable.He is flanked by a team of lawyers. Behind him are politicians from Washington, DC, paying fealty. Behind them, rows and rows of journalists sit for hours in hard, weathered wooden benches, shifting in their seats for a better look.But on this day, a Wednesday, the chair was filled with a succession of anxious New Yorkers who…
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