Senior Engineering Manager. CS grad. Data, storage, cloud. 20+ years at the same company.

She came to me looking for a new role.

Four interviews before we met. Two failed. Two she never showed up for.

She thought she needed motivation. A goals doc. A practice plan.

I gave her both. She didn’t show up.

It wasn’t a failure of willpower. It was a systems error.

And it got worse.

By July, she wasn’t even a manager anymore.

By October, she was L6 at Google.

I wrote about what happened in between.

"The Debugging of Geeta Sharma"