Meeting Title: Brainforge Advait 30-Day Review Date: 2026-04-10 Meeting participants: Kaela Gallagher, Advait Nandakumar Menon, Jasmin Multani
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1 00:00:41.140 ⇒ 00:00:43.249 Kaela Gallagher: Hi, Bate! How’s it going?
2 00:00:44.040 ⇒ 00:00:45.509 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, Kayla, how’s it going?
3 00:00:45.520 ⇒ 00:00:47.570 Kaela Gallagher: Good! How are you?
4 00:00:48.430 ⇒ 00:00:49.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’m doing good.
5 00:00:49.960 ⇒ 00:00:50.870 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, Jocelyn.
6 00:00:52.850 ⇒ 00:00:57.110 Jasmin Multani: Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you’re welcome for everyone here.
7 00:00:57.230 ⇒ 00:00:59.490 Kaela Gallagher: Happy Friday!
8 00:00:59.730 ⇒ 00:01:05.340 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, Advait, we wanted to just have a quick call. I know I already…
9 00:01:05.340 ⇒ 00:01:25.570 Kaela Gallagher: shared the news, but we’re going to be extending you past the trial period, and have just really appreciated all the work that you’ve done with us so far. And so, wanted to just have this call as you’re, like, almost at day 30, just kind of recapping, like, what’s went well so far, and then what we kind of
10 00:01:25.570 ⇒ 00:01:32.550 Kaela Gallagher: expect moving forward. So, Jasmine will run through that, since, she’ll be working really closely with you.
11 00:01:33.270 ⇒ 00:01:39.939 Jasmin Multani: Thank you, Kayla, for priming. Aved, do you have any reactions? Do you want to say anything?
12 00:01:40.250 ⇒ 00:01:56.070 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, I already reacted to, like Kayla said, we spoke for a little. So, yeah, I’m really happy this is happening, the kind of work that’s happening here. I don’t think any other company is doing what we are doing right now with respect to AI, and the way we are
13 00:01:56.070 ⇒ 00:02:01.879 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Doing with automation, and, like, the consulting as a whole, and providing solutions.
14 00:02:01.970 ⇒ 00:02:19.690 Advait Nandakumar Menon: two clients, basically, so it’s a really good space to be in, so really good team we have got here, so I’m really excited that you guys love my work, and I’m loving what I’m learning here, how fast-paced it is, so it’s a really good environment to grow, so I’m thankful for this,
15 00:02:19.730 ⇒ 00:02:22.609 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Extension and the value you guys see in me.
16 00:02:23.040 ⇒ 00:02:31.110 Jasmin Multani: Okay, good, I’m glad, I’m glad, and I hopefully, it’s also reciprocated that you stay excited and engaged working here.
17 00:02:31.530 ⇒ 00:02:37.560 Jasmin Multani: I know it’s always, like, kind of nerve-wracking when someone is like, yeah, you like this company, right? But,
18 00:02:38.250 ⇒ 00:02:38.670 Jasmin Multani: January.
19 00:02:38.670 ⇒ 00:02:39.030 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
20 00:02:39.060 ⇒ 00:02:47.589 Jasmin Multani: the best feedback I’ve gotten in my career, from countless managers who were not, you know, my direct people manager, but.
21 00:02:48.030 ⇒ 00:02:49.369 Jasmin Multani: Kind of adjacent.
22 00:02:51.090 ⇒ 00:03:00.180 Jasmin Multani: no matter what company I’ve had, no matter what that person’s background is, they’ve… I’ve heard people consistently say, chase the thing that you’re curious about.
23 00:03:00.400 ⇒ 00:03:08.309 Jasmin Multani: So that’s something I want you to consider as we kickstart this new contract, and when you think about,
24 00:03:09.320 ⇒ 00:03:22.410 Jasmin Multani: your future steps here at the company, how you want to grow. I really do think there is, like, a human value in structuring work around what you’re actually curious about, and I hope you have, like,
25 00:03:22.820 ⇒ 00:03:35.930 Jasmin Multani: you feel empowered enough to tell us when, projects are not working well, when you think that, hey, this is, like, a dead end, and you’re able to bring evidence, to the table to explain, hey, we’re…
26 00:03:36.050 ⇒ 00:03:37.879 Jasmin Multani: We’re spinning our wheels here.
27 00:03:38.180 ⇒ 00:03:56.359 Jasmin Multani: So for the next, 27 minutes, the way I want to structure this is get some high-level feedback about how you felt about the process this past month, where we can do better, and then I’ll transition towards your, agenda doc, where I’ll give you advice about, like.
28 00:03:56.520 ⇒ 00:04:01.219 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, thank you, Kayla. Where I’ve written down advice about,
29 00:04:01.260 ⇒ 00:04:13.110 Jasmin Multani: what you should start doing in order for you to be, leveling up. Areas where I think you should continue doubling down on, where I think is, explicitly your superpower.
30 00:04:13.110 ⇒ 00:04:22.170 Jasmin Multani: And third, things I think you should stop doing. I’ve only met… I very… don’t know you that well enough to give you such heavy.
31 00:04:22.170 ⇒ 00:04:22.550 Advait Nandakumar Menon: editor.
32 00:04:22.550 ⇒ 00:04:31.620 Jasmin Multani: feedback, but this is… I’m gonna prime you that, like, this is the way you should structure your developmental, conversations.
33 00:04:31.620 ⇒ 00:04:32.230 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
34 00:04:33.290 ⇒ 00:04:45.280 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, and we can discuss more of that towards the end of the call, but, towards the end of the call, I want you to have a meta sense of, like, what you want to start, continue, and stop doing.
35 00:04:45.280 ⇒ 00:04:55.720 Jasmin Multani: And, because Kayla’s also in the room, we can also discuss, like, what framework can we use and develop, honestly, because so many of these roles are so new.
36 00:04:55.720 ⇒ 00:05:12.039 Jasmin Multani: that we’re building, the decision tree ourselves, so how do we, make a case for each of us to be like, hey, this is the transition of an analyst to a CSO, and how do we… how do you prepare your package for that?
37 00:05:12.740 ⇒ 00:05:13.390 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
38 00:05:13.390 ⇒ 00:05:19.960 Kaela Gallagher: Edvay, is that something that, like, sounds of interest to you, like, eventually kind of growing into that CSO role?
39 00:05:20.990 ⇒ 00:05:22.410 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so…
40 00:05:22.550 ⇒ 00:05:32.590 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Not only that, if I can speak more broadly of where I want to grow or look into. I briefly mentioned this to Robert a couple of weeks back when I met him.
41 00:05:32.720 ⇒ 00:05:41.019 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I have been an analyst and building dashboards more so recently, like, I love the work, I still love it, but I do also…
42 00:05:41.160 ⇒ 00:05:50.230 Advait Nandakumar Menon: kind of want to, see where I can go with, like, the engineering or building part, like data engineering or analytics engineering, like…
43 00:05:50.400 ⇒ 00:05:53.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I am a builder at heart, but I also love analytics, so…
44 00:05:53.970 ⇒ 00:06:04.560 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I have been exposed to data engineering a little bit in my previous role back in India, so I do have background, but that’s something I…
45 00:06:04.560 ⇒ 00:06:23.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: do want to see myself a little bit and experiment, and Robert mentioned that Brainforge is really open, like, with which path you want to go and how you want to take it, so… I’m not saying I don’t want to do analytics or strategy or data work, but I do want to dip my feet into that as well, and…
46 00:06:23.800 ⇒ 00:06:26.619 Advait Nandakumar Menon: see if it’s something I can grow into. So, that’s…
47 00:06:26.650 ⇒ 00:06:42.740 Advait Nandakumar Menon: specifically where I see myself, but with CSO and the SL and the EPA, all these new terms I have learned after coming here, I do see myself growing to that as well, like, engaging with the clients and owning the relationship.
48 00:06:42.740 ⇒ 00:06:52.849 Advait Nandakumar Menon: But… but that’s something I see myself grow eventually, like, some… instead of something immediately right now, so… But yeah, that sounds like a good thing.
49 00:06:52.850 ⇒ 00:07:02.530 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, it’s helpful for us to know, like, where you… you see yourself growing, and so we can understand, like, how to support that moving forward, so thank you for sharing that.
50 00:07:03.400 ⇒ 00:07:04.140 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
51 00:07:05.180 ⇒ 00:07:17.689 Jasmin Multani: Awesome. I’m glad that was a good primer, a good pivot question, too, instead of me assuming CSO is the path. Let me… let me share screen so I can show what I’ve gathered so far.
52 00:07:19.320 ⇒ 00:07:33.279 Jasmin Multani: So, whenever you have your developmental meetings with either me, Robert, or any lead, feel free to structure it the way you want it to be, but this is one path I’ve used in the past.
53 00:07:33.280 ⇒ 00:07:41.380 Jasmin Multani: with, you know, in the past, at previous companies, what I’ll tell my managers and my skip levels is that, hey.
54 00:07:41.770 ⇒ 00:07:49.529 Jasmin Multani: I want to have a monthly meeting with you, where we’re just discussing my projects and how it ladders up to my career growth.
55 00:07:50.810 ⇒ 00:07:56.740 Jasmin Multani: One of the templates that we would use is this continue, start, and stop framework. So.
56 00:07:56.740 ⇒ 00:07:57.470 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
57 00:07:57.610 ⇒ 00:08:16.250 Jasmin Multani: Today, I’ve taken a stab of, like, providing this to you, but moving forward, the bulk of it is gonna come from you, and how you’re able to self-assess, and I encourage you that you… you do the writing yourself, you provide the evidence, and then,
58 00:08:16.520 ⇒ 00:08:23.499 Jasmin Multani: your leader will give you a high pass or a low pass, like, yes, I agree, or no, I disagree.
59 00:08:23.500 ⇒ 00:08:23.970 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
60 00:08:23.970 ⇒ 00:08:35.080 Jasmin Multani: that’ll also make you feel like, okay, I am thinking the same way that my manager and my leader is thinking, because that’s eventually the muscle that you want to grow.
61 00:08:35.350 ⇒ 00:08:38.459 Jasmin Multani: Okay, yeah. I want to anticipate what they’re trying to say.
62 00:08:38.960 ⇒ 00:08:42.670 Jasmin Multani: But for the sake of this meeting, I started off here.
63 00:08:43.470 ⇒ 00:08:44.000 Jasmin Multani: So.
64 00:08:44.000 ⇒ 00:08:56.450 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sorry to interrupt you, so you said I can self-assess and try to come up with the material myself, so do you want me to do, like, every 30 days, or how should I go about that?
65 00:08:57.000 ⇒ 00:08:58.800 Jasmin Multani: I think,
66 00:08:59.530 ⇒ 00:09:13.049 Jasmin Multani: In the past, I’ve had success doing it every 30 days, but I also want to be in lock with Kayla and Robert and what incentives that we can actually promise to give you back.
67 00:09:14.660 ⇒ 00:09:31.880 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I think Jasmine right now, like, in terms of SLs and, like, running their teams, we’re kind of leaving it up to you, so however you want to choose to, like, check in with Advait, whatever, you know, cadence you guys want to run with, up to you guys.
68 00:09:32.120 ⇒ 00:09:41.659 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, let’s do every 30 days, and in the background, I’ll talk to Robert and Kayla directly about the incentives, and .
69 00:09:41.660 ⇒ 00:09:42.280 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure.
70 00:09:42.760 ⇒ 00:09:47.349 Jasmin Multani: Pulse check with them, like, hey, this is the growth, like, what do we unlock from here?
71 00:09:47.600 ⇒ 00:09:48.690 Jasmin Multani: Thanks, Kayla.
72 00:09:49.210 ⇒ 00:09:56.500 Jasmin Multani: So yeah, feel free to just set those meetings up. We could do it on a Friday, it could be casual,
73 00:09:56.500 ⇒ 00:09:57.170 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, yeah.
74 00:09:57.170 ⇒ 00:09:58.499 Jasmin Multani: ends up being, like.
75 00:09:59.080 ⇒ 00:10:05.979 Jasmin Multani: the way you want to drive it. If you… like, in the past, I’ve done Excel spreadsheets, where…
76 00:10:06.370 ⇒ 00:10:11.790 Jasmin Multani: at DoorDash, we had a very clear Excel spreadsheet, that literally said.
77 00:10:11.940 ⇒ 00:10:31.910 Jasmin Multani: Analytics should be at 30% for associates, communication should be at this percent, and management should be at this percent. And that matrix clearly would show the difference in percentage, whether you’re an associate, a senior associate, or a manager or director.
78 00:10:32.010 ⇒ 00:10:45.260 Jasmin Multani: I don’t know if we have that, but that also means that, like, we’re gonna take a stab at creating that. And what I would do is, like, every… I had that, like, mega Excel spreadsheet, I would record
79 00:10:45.260 ⇒ 00:10:58.599 Jasmin Multani: hey, this is the month, this is how we changed, and I would add extra columns, like, this is the change in development I’ve shown in the past month, this is how I’ve incorporated your feedback.
80 00:10:58.630 ⇒ 00:11:01.719 Jasmin Multani: And just tag it with evidence.
81 00:11:01.720 ⇒ 00:11:02.040 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
82 00:11:02.040 ⇒ 00:11:11.310 Jasmin Multani: doc did not have this type of framework. It was explicitly a big no, that we’re not going to provide any framework. So,
83 00:11:12.970 ⇒ 00:11:22.090 Jasmin Multani: from there, I would advise, like, taking a note from that, advise being very heavy-handed on…
84 00:11:22.700 ⇒ 00:11:39.999 Jasmin Multani: documentation and approving… getting… getting excerpts from your stakeholders, being like, hey, I impacted Aviacious Workstream this way, I unlocked it this way, and sizing it out yourself, and getting that, agreement from your, XFNs that…
85 00:11:40.030 ⇒ 00:11:43.680 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, he actually did it this way. So… Okay.
86 00:11:43.960 ⇒ 00:11:47.889 Jasmin Multani: Just a couple different ways to do it, but up to you of how you want to drive this.
87 00:11:48.460 ⇒ 00:11:49.090 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
88 00:11:49.750 ⇒ 00:11:50.320 Jasmin Multani: Okay, cool.
89 00:11:50.320 ⇒ 00:11:58.309 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, no, that’s helpful. That’s something to keep in mind, so maybe I’ll adopt or adapt to what you said.
90 00:11:58.450 ⇒ 00:12:02.530 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Just now, or just think about how to go about it as well, so… yeah.
91 00:12:02.530 ⇒ 00:12:12.669 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, and it can be a work-in-progress thing too, right? So whatever you bring up the first time we meet, we can jam it together and be like, okay, this is a very…
92 00:12:12.820 ⇒ 00:12:20.709 Jasmin Multani: clear way for us to present this case, to Robert for any other incentives or changes, whatever.
93 00:12:21.480 ⇒ 00:12:26.299 Jasmin Multani: Yeah. Okay, cool. Are there any questions before I go into the feedback?
94 00:12:26.710 ⇒ 00:12:34.539 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, that’s just the one, like, how frequent will this be, and how should I go about it? So, I think you answered it, so… I don’t have anything else.
95 00:12:34.540 ⇒ 00:12:52.759 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, yeah. And the one thing I’ll say is, month over month, you should not feel surprised about any feedback I give. So that’s also a gut test for you to push back on me. If there’s anything that you’re surprised about, or you’re like, hey, this is new, this is different from what we discussed.
96 00:12:53.220 ⇒ 00:12:56.960 Jasmin Multani: or enforced in the last 30 days. You have…
97 00:12:57.210 ⇒ 00:13:02.290 Jasmin Multani: open rein to be like, hey, I’m surprised, what’s going on? So…
98 00:13:02.920 ⇒ 00:13:07.959 Jasmin Multani: Every quarter, your growth should be, making sense to both agencies.
99 00:13:07.960 ⇒ 00:13:08.630 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
100 00:13:09.320 ⇒ 00:13:10.200 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Cool.
101 00:13:10.980 ⇒ 00:13:18.090 Jasmin Multani: Alright, so clicking into the feedback, two things I think you should continue doing.
102 00:13:18.330 ⇒ 00:13:28.670 Jasmin Multani: So, I’ve noticed that you are a very calm, cool, and collected person, and you’re very good at speaking up and raising alarms publicly when things are high risk.
103 00:13:28.880 ⇒ 00:13:42.659 Jasmin Multani: Specifically, this came up when, I think, earlier this week, when you were noting some missing aspects in the Omni data, from Greg’s first run of the, wholesale
104 00:13:42.750 ⇒ 00:14:00.419 Jasmin Multani: specs documentation. And that gave him… that helped him stop the tracks, be like, oh, okay, we need to rewrite this specs list, not just incorporating, Jasmine’s comments, but also, being able to prompt the AI cursor, to know where to look.
105 00:14:00.470 ⇒ 00:14:05.689 Jasmin Multani: So, the fact that you provided the evidence for that is also very helpful.
106 00:14:05.790 ⇒ 00:14:10.640 Jasmin Multani: A uniform? Yep. Exactly, there you go.
107 00:14:10.860 ⇒ 00:14:21.629 Jasmin Multani: So please keep doing that. I appreciate the fact that you send screenshots so that people can recreate the issue, and you’re able to isolate the problem effectively.
108 00:14:22.040 ⇒ 00:14:22.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
109 00:14:23.550 ⇒ 00:14:28.730 Jasmin Multani: The second thing that I’ve noticed that I think you should continue doing, requesting for alignment.
110 00:14:28.840 ⇒ 00:14:41.769 Jasmin Multani: Earlier this week, you, me, and Amber met up to discuss the wholesale dashboard, and I wanted to figure out how we can get both wholesale and retail done by end of week.
111 00:14:41.770 ⇒ 00:14:49.910 Jasmin Multani: At some point, you asked me, like, okay, Jasmine, so how should I prioritize? Should I drop doing certain retail dashboards?
112 00:14:49.950 ⇒ 00:15:07.860 Jasmin Multani: And encourage, like, start working on wholesale, yes or no? I think that was a really good call-out, and that also enforced the onus back on me that I need to do the scoping, and I need to do the ticket cutting in order for you to feel,
113 00:15:08.320 ⇒ 00:15:13.010 Jasmin Multani: Empowered enough to stop doing certain work and start doing other work.
114 00:15:13.650 ⇒ 00:15:14.330 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
115 00:15:14.330 ⇒ 00:15:21.970 Jasmin Multani: And I don’t say it lightly, but, there are people who are yes-men.
116 00:15:21.970 ⇒ 00:15:36.550 Jasmin Multani: And just say yes to everything, and I understand the pressure, but, I need you to keep discussing, like, hey, you’re telling me to do this, but this other person who’s high up also told me to do this.
117 00:15:36.550 ⇒ 00:15:38.589 Jasmin Multani: How should I reconcile?
118 00:15:38.630 ⇒ 00:15:40.140 Jasmin Multani: That…
119 00:15:40.140 ⇒ 00:15:45.909 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s something I have… sorry to interrupt you, but that’s something I have, like…
120 00:15:46.020 ⇒ 00:15:49.370 Advait Nandakumar Menon: evolved over the course of my career, like, earlier.
121 00:15:49.530 ⇒ 00:15:59.720 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I used to be like, okay, I should be saying yes to everything, and taking in all the requests and not speak up, but that’s not really sustainable in the long run, so… yeah, that’s something,
122 00:16:00.020 ⇒ 00:16:04.040 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Evolved and grown into, so thanks for noting that.
123 00:16:05.180 ⇒ 00:16:06.219 Jasmin Multani: Of course, of course.
124 00:16:06.700 ⇒ 00:16:16.749 Jasmin Multani: Cool. So we should go continue doing that. Next cake is… start… a stage is starting.
125 00:16:16.920 ⇒ 00:16:21.710 Jasmin Multani: here are things that I’ve noticed about your output that I think could help you,
126 00:16:22.060 ⇒ 00:16:33.969 Jasmin Multani: step up more in a way that helps unlock, things for other stakeholders. So, the lens I’m viewing this through is
127 00:16:34.510 ⇒ 00:16:45.229 Jasmin Multani: this first feedback is coming from the fact that we’re all so async, and we’re all in different time zones. We’re each, like, bombarded with different, Slack messages.
128 00:16:45.470 ⇒ 00:16:48.210 Jasmin Multani: So, when you do…
129 00:16:48.390 ⇒ 00:17:01.199 Jasmin Multani: drop, hey, that you’ve, you’re done evaluating, you’re done pushing out a dashboard. I also would like to see you doing a quick summary list of that dashboard, of how you would self-evaluate.
130 00:17:01.610 ⇒ 00:17:02.100 Jasmin Multani: Right.
131 00:17:02.100 ⇒ 00:17:02.670 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
132 00:17:02.670 ⇒ 00:17:15.400 Jasmin Multani: So, what that looks like is being like, hey, of the five, checklist requirements that were, requested, all five have been maintained. Sometimes we have to publish things without,
133 00:17:15.640 ⇒ 00:17:24.690 Jasmin Multani: going through the checklist, because it’s not a good use of our time, too. So that also helps that, hey, things that we requested were fully, accomplished.
134 00:17:25.190 ⇒ 00:17:28.829 Jasmin Multani: Something else you can say is, hey, in this current use case.
135 00:17:29.050 ⇒ 00:17:36.390 Jasmin Multani: Shivani is able to use this. It is able… it addresses these of Shivani’s,
136 00:17:36.520 ⇒ 00:17:47.439 Jasmin Multani: pain points. These are the requests that she had, cited, and then be able to cite, where it was initially documented, and say.
137 00:17:47.440 ⇒ 00:17:47.810 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hmm.
138 00:17:47.810 ⇒ 00:17:50.170 Jasmin Multani: Hey, this, accomplishes her needs.
139 00:17:50.470 ⇒ 00:18:08.079 Jasmin Multani: What else you can also add in this summary is discussing trade-offs. So, this is something I had seen in the Eden, conversation. You weren’t involved in it, it was mainly me, Amber, and Aviation discussing, but,
140 00:18:08.320 ⇒ 00:18:27.529 Jasmin Multani: what was helpful in that conversation was when the team was like, hey, if we go with this, we’re gonna have this method, it’ll be high-level KPIs, what we’re discussing, but we’ll be able to push it out quicker. And if we go through this method, it’ll take us longer, but we will get,
141 00:18:27.650 ⇒ 00:18:31.209 Jasmin Multani: higher resolution, more complete data. And…
142 00:18:31.210 ⇒ 00:18:31.760 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
143 00:18:31.760 ⇒ 00:18:34.369 Jasmin Multani: However, I had to push back.
144 00:18:34.880 ⇒ 00:18:37.600 Jasmin Multani: Because I was like, I don’t have time to do…
145 00:18:37.750 ⇒ 00:18:49.390 Jasmin Multani: so much of the migration. And, ultimately I asked, like, okay, you guys have met with the clients officially. What level of data do they need immediately?
146 00:18:49.600 ⇒ 00:18:52.419 Jasmin Multani: Before the full migration in 2 months.
147 00:18:52.690 ⇒ 00:18:59.050 Jasmin Multani: Like, what level of data do they need today in order to make their decisions in the next coming months? And…
148 00:18:59.050 ⇒ 00:18:59.370 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
149 00:18:59.370 ⇒ 00:19:03.210 Jasmin Multani: The team told me, well, you know, Eden is…
150 00:19:03.480 ⇒ 00:19:09.209 Jasmin Multani: They understand that full decisions will be unlocked in 2 months, and they’re willing to wait.
151 00:19:09.210 ⇒ 00:19:09.590 Advait Nandakumar Menon: eat.
152 00:19:09.590 ⇒ 00:19:25.459 Jasmin Multani: in two months, for the full data resolution, they’ve already agreed that, like, they’re happy with high-level revenue count, and I’m like, cool, let’s go with this first method, discuss the trade-off, and
153 00:19:25.590 ⇒ 00:19:29.779 Jasmin Multani: You know, discuss what the client is also willing to work with.
154 00:19:30.390 ⇒ 00:19:31.590 Jasmin Multani: Okay.
155 00:19:31.820 ⇒ 00:19:41.719 Jasmin Multani: just because, like, we have… different clients have different personalities, like, I don’t… would be able to do that with Shivani, but thankfully, Eden,
156 00:19:41.990 ⇒ 00:19:44.879 Jasmin Multani: Eden feels confident, more confident in what’s.
157 00:19:44.880 ⇒ 00:19:45.270 Advait Nandakumar Menon: snap.
158 00:19:45.270 ⇒ 00:19:46.670 Jasmin Multani: At the end of 2 months.
159 00:19:47.460 ⇒ 00:19:48.110 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
160 00:19:48.110 ⇒ 00:19:54.200 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, so, just snapshot, do, like, a summary snapshot every time you say, hey, this dashboard is done.
161 00:19:54.830 ⇒ 00:19:55.670 Jasmin Multani: Cool.
162 00:19:56.000 ⇒ 00:20:05.729 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Makes sense, I’ll start doing it. Like, also the fact that these were pretty quick to push out, like, since they were coming up with the deadline, so I didn’t…
163 00:20:05.730 ⇒ 00:20:16.069 Advait Nandakumar Menon: get the time needed to do that quick summary or the QA, that’s obviously required, but yeah, that’s something to keep in mind, so… I’ll start doing it for now.
164 00:20:16.330 ⇒ 00:20:24.549 Jasmin Multani: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, like, I have full faith that, like, when I’m giving these start instructions, it’s not a penalty of what you did, last week.
165 00:20:24.550 ⇒ 00:20:25.509 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, yeah, yeah.
166 00:20:25.510 ⇒ 00:20:37.800 Jasmin Multani: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Things are only… things only get red flag if, like, leaders have brought it up, and multiple leaders have brought it up, and, like, it hasn’t been assessed. But I have full faith that, like.
167 00:20:37.890 ⇒ 00:20:50.050 Jasmin Multani: you’ll be able… I fully know that you’ll be able to do a summary snapshot, whenever you… whenever you’re finished with a dashboard, like, it’ll be, like, 5 minutes, so you don’t have to say sorry for anything.
168 00:20:50.430 ⇒ 00:20:51.180 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
169 00:20:51.280 ⇒ 00:20:57.079 Jasmin Multani: And next thing you should consider starting. So, this case…
170 00:20:57.140 ⇒ 00:21:12.189 Jasmin Multani: feedback from Robert that he posted over here. He wants to see you develop out more as an analyst, and consider, doing lifecycle marketing-focused analysis work. So specifically this.
171 00:21:12.540 ⇒ 00:21:18.979 Jasmin Multani: So I know you did said that you want to prefer data engineering work, but,
172 00:21:19.150 ⇒ 00:21:23.919 Jasmin Multani: And we’ll figure out ways to staff you on, and I’ll talk to Robert about this.
173 00:21:24.040 ⇒ 00:21:38.469 Jasmin Multani: But in the meantime, in order to be able to upsell for the company, being able to build out these skills, would just bring in more immediate money, and more immediate satisfaction.
174 00:21:39.810 ⇒ 00:21:52.889 Jasmin Multani: So when you consider your 30-day… whenever you, kickstart your 30-day, development chat with me, this could also be part of the consideration, like, hey.
175 00:21:53.300 ⇒ 00:21:59.979 Jasmin Multani: look-back period, this is what I did. Look-ahead period, this is how I, am going to incorporate
176 00:22:00.090 ⇒ 00:22:01.590 Jasmin Multani: The start asks.
177 00:22:03.000 ⇒ 00:22:08.610 Jasmin Multani: And, you know, not everything… Not every skill is developed.
178 00:22:08.900 ⇒ 00:22:18.669 Jasmin Multani: With every project, but, if you can just, like, find one project, or one analysis where you can start flexing, like, scratching those muscles.
179 00:22:18.870 ⇒ 00:22:32.589 Jasmin Multani: Let’s scratch those muscles immediately, and then spend the next few months, like, developing it out, and seeing how you can, like, scale it out, and stress test it with different clients. So that’s how I consider pacing for these things.
180 00:22:33.120 ⇒ 00:22:34.330 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, yeah.
181 00:22:35.480 ⇒ 00:22:39.640 Jasmin Multani: And I’ll touch base more with Robert on this aspect.
182 00:22:41.340 ⇒ 00:22:41.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure.
183 00:22:41.900 ⇒ 00:22:47.949 Jasmin Multani: Moving on to stop. Again, I also just joined full-time this week.
184 00:22:48.270 ⇒ 00:22:55.959 Jasmin Multani: And, before I was part-time, so I’ve been really looking through, through Slack on…
185 00:22:56.280 ⇒ 00:23:13.620 Jasmin Multani: high level, how different analysts perform. One feedback that I have is, being silent about workload bandwidth, and I think that’s, more of a… I think we can consider this as a company culture aspect as well.
186 00:23:13.620 ⇒ 00:23:14.170 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
187 00:23:14.530 ⇒ 00:23:26.370 Jasmin Multani: in the past, I’ve just… and for better or for worse, in the past, I’ve seen different teams, provide daily asyncs, or provide,
188 00:23:26.840 ⇒ 00:23:35.289 Jasmin Multani: You know, weekly business review information, where we each know, you know, at the director level, what is the director doing, and even at the analyst level.
189 00:23:35.810 ⇒ 00:23:42.940 Jasmin Multani: is the analyst doing? Yeah, everyone should have, clarity, and if you need to… there have been times where
190 00:23:43.640 ⇒ 00:23:49.810 Jasmin Multani: like, even if I’m making DoorDash calls and doing kind of consumer or voice of the Dasher calls.
191 00:23:50.100 ⇒ 00:24:06.240 Jasmin Multani: our directors were like, include us. Include us so that we can at least do 2 or 3 calls ourselves, and we know what’s happening at the ground level. So, I really do wanna… and I do think it makes a difference, in product quality.
192 00:24:06.310 ⇒ 00:24:14.240 Jasmin Multani: So don’t be afraid to pull people… to pull me in, be like, hey, I need you to test these blobby questions out.
193 00:24:14.810 ⇒ 00:24:16.710 Jasmin Multani: Shivani has straight up said.
194 00:24:17.570 ⇒ 00:24:36.240 Jasmin Multani: on a weekly basis, let’s… let’s test out the blobby together. She wants to… yesterday, she was like, let’s pitch a question once, per meeting, on our Thursday call, so I’m like, okay, so we’re gonna be… we’re all gonna be stress testing before she… we… we talk to her about it.
195 00:24:36.240 ⇒ 00:24:36.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
196 00:24:36.900 ⇒ 00:24:39.370 Jasmin Multani: But yeah, I just want to prime you that, like.
197 00:24:40.040 ⇒ 00:24:49.200 Jasmin Multani: you know, no one is above knowing what you’re doing, so I would like to see you being more vocal about your workload and your bandwidth.
198 00:24:49.200 ⇒ 00:24:49.720 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
199 00:24:50.190 ⇒ 00:24:50.740 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hmm.
200 00:24:50.910 ⇒ 00:24:54.900 Jasmin Multani: talking… in talking with Garrett, I feel like…
201 00:24:55.340 ⇒ 00:25:00.110 Jasmin Multani: what the type of project management Garrett’s gonna be doing, and
202 00:25:00.170 ⇒ 00:25:16.190 Jasmin Multani: how he’s gonna be streamlining every… and consolidating everyone’s information. I have faith that that’ll be a good forum to start, have you start discussing where you’re at in your project, so we can all double-click into things for each other as well.
203 00:25:16.820 ⇒ 00:25:28.720 Jasmin Multani: So, I have a feeling that, like, we’ll have the structure for you to, answer this, but you tell me if you want more structure, if you want to, like, do daily asyncs or whatever.
204 00:25:29.630 ⇒ 00:25:30.350 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
205 00:25:30.560 ⇒ 00:25:32.580 Jasmin Multani: And you can feel free… I… yeah.
206 00:25:33.100 ⇒ 00:25:35.920 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I don’t think… So…
207 00:25:36.090 ⇒ 00:25:43.509 Advait Nandakumar Menon: daily essays is something I have previously done, like, daily stand-up, whatever you want to call it, something I’ve done previously,
208 00:25:43.790 ⇒ 00:26:00.710 Advait Nandakumar Menon: with whatever roles I’ve worked at, whatever companies, so that’s something different I have seen here. So, I’m still trying to form an opinion of how that works, but I would be curious as to what Garrett is, coming up with, so maybe that’s a good thing to test it out, and…
209 00:26:00.870 ⇒ 00:26:07.599 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I can form an opinion whether that’s working out or not, or a daily async will work, or whatever, so…
210 00:26:07.600 ⇒ 00:26:08.440 Jasmin Multani: That’s.
211 00:26:08.440 ⇒ 00:26:10.089 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s how I’m thinking about it right now.
212 00:26:10.090 ⇒ 00:26:18.739 Jasmin Multani: At least with those weeklies that Garrett is pushing out, he’s for sure gonna be consolidating information for those decks that go out weekly.
213 00:26:19.460 ⇒ 00:26:33.159 Jasmin Multani: And I’ve also asked, hey, can we have, like, an internal-facing doc that, outlines the true blockers, and the true mistakes, or the true mishaps, so that we’re a bit more honest, hey, this is… this is, blocked.
214 00:26:33.670 ⇒ 00:26:39.820 Jasmin Multani: This is a dead-end issue. So, ideally, we should have that up and running.
215 00:26:39.820 ⇒ 00:26:40.210 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
216 00:26:40.210 ⇒ 00:26:46.629 Jasmin Multani: I’ll present it on Monday, and then Garrett will, like, expand on it, however he feels like.
217 00:26:47.140 ⇒ 00:26:49.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, sounds fair.
218 00:26:50.010 ⇒ 00:27:06.250 Jasmin Multani: Now, we have 4 minutes. I just wanted to spend a few minutes, going over this, section. If you want to come back to this document and add more to it, feel free. Sure. But this is just, like, a primary test of, like.
219 00:27:06.280 ⇒ 00:27:12.329 Jasmin Multani: Taco, like, how… what do you want to see yourself stop doing, continue doing, or start doing?
220 00:27:17.050 ⇒ 00:27:23.159 Jasmin Multani: So we can start with continue. So what are things or projects that you, enjoy doing?
221 00:27:24.680 ⇒ 00:27:32.209 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, right now, I am obviously enjoying Element, and I got pulled into default as well.
222 00:27:32.340 ⇒ 00:27:48.500 Advait Nandakumar Menon: By Uttam, so that was very random in the sense, I was working on something, and he called barely 10 or 5 minutes before a meeting with, default, and asked whether I can clean up some dashboard, which obviously wasn’t enough time
223 00:27:48.500 ⇒ 00:27:58.249 Advait Nandakumar Menon: when I was just starting to get used to Omni, this was in my second week, I think, so… Default is also pretty nice to work with.
224 00:27:59.330 ⇒ 00:28:06.159 Advait Nandakumar Menon: The building dashboard, the stress testing blobby, and trying to get to give the…
225 00:28:06.470 ⇒ 00:28:10.610 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Correct answers is something I’m enjoying right now, so…
226 00:28:10.900 ⇒ 00:28:20.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I’m still… like, this has been my third week, so this has been all the work I’ve done so far, so… yeah, that’s it for now, I would say.
227 00:28:22.270 ⇒ 00:28:31.489 Jasmin Multani: And I know we’ll be at time in 2 minutes, so feel free to, like, enrich this on your own, or you can come prepared for a 30-day conversation, whenever you choose.
228 00:28:31.950 ⇒ 00:28:38.339 Jasmin Multani: What are some things that… you can feel free to, like, if you feel like I didn’t capture anything correctly, feel free to over-edit. Yeah.
229 00:28:39.080 ⇒ 00:28:59.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so I think the one thing would be is… I kind of want to contribute, like I said, I want to build and engineer stuff as well. I kind of want to contribute to the Brainforge platform GitHub. I think Utham has been asking me to push some PRs or a playbook for Omni, so that’s something I’m looking to do within today or by Monday, like.
230 00:28:59.230 ⇒ 00:29:16.070 Advait Nandakumar Menon: he… we had a call yesterday, and he’s like, a couple of people are using Omni CLI now, so it would be a really good, start for you to push a PR on a playbook to install the CLI, and how to basically use it, like, a quick summary of it, so that’s something I want to do.
231 00:29:16.120 ⇒ 00:29:27.369 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And obviously, the certification with respect to Omni and Snowflake is something I’m planning to get done. I didn’t get time this week to fully start learning, but that’s something I’m…
232 00:29:27.520 ⇒ 00:29:35.649 Advait Nandakumar Menon: planning to focus on as well, and better manage my workload and the learning aspect as well. So, yeah.
233 00:29:36.590 ⇒ 00:29:45.390 Jasmin Multani: Okay, cool, and I feel like that’s easily quantifiable, too, just being able to quantify the contributions, and how many people are actually using your playbooks.
234 00:29:45.830 ⇒ 00:29:51.030 Jasmin Multani: very clear-cut. I think you can start documenting it even next week.
235 00:29:52.970 ⇒ 00:29:53.570 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah.
236 00:29:54.580 ⇒ 00:29:57.260 Jasmin Multani: Now, what are some things that you want to stop doing?
237 00:29:58.260 ⇒ 00:29:59.610 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, that’s…
238 00:29:59.930 ⇒ 00:30:07.259 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I would have to agree with your, the workload bandwidth thing. That something is, especially with this week.
239 00:30:07.500 ⇒ 00:30:09.559 Advait Nandakumar Menon: With the dashboard thing, so…
240 00:30:09.980 ⇒ 00:30:14.500 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s something I am planning to be more vocal about, and…
241 00:30:14.820 ⇒ 00:30:23.899 Advait Nandakumar Menon: give you updates, and the thing is, too, is that before you came into the picture, I was technically reporting to Robert, but
242 00:30:23.910 ⇒ 00:30:35.699 Advait Nandakumar Menon: he was also busy with some stuff, and I don’t have anyone really, like, I’m reporting to, so… I think from now, that’s a good thing I need to be vocal about, especially with you, so… yeah, that’s…
243 00:30:35.830 ⇒ 00:30:41.639 Advait Nandakumar Menon: something I want to… Stop basically being silent about my workload.
244 00:30:42.490 ⇒ 00:30:51.340 Jasmin Multani: Okay, cool. Alright, so we’ll… we’ll structure our one-on-ones more, and you can feel free to give me more feedback during those one-on-ones.
245 00:30:51.360 ⇒ 00:31:03.429 Jasmin Multani: Of what you want to see more in. I do feel like, as we template things out more, and then our internal communications are more consistent, social work that Garrett’s doing.
246 00:31:03.430 ⇒ 00:31:03.930 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
247 00:31:03.930 ⇒ 00:31:08.710 Jasmin Multani: We’ll all be able to tell, like, okay, which dashboard needs to be updated 10 minutes before a meeting.
248 00:31:08.710 ⇒ 00:31:09.360 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Everyone.
249 00:31:09.360 ⇒ 00:31:13.739 Jasmin Multani: Which one, is already in a good spot, and we can just go to bed easy.
250 00:31:13.740 ⇒ 00:31:15.110 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah.
251 00:31:15.960 ⇒ 00:31:28.489 Jasmin Multani: Cool! In the meantime, I’ll set up that 30-day call with you and make sure our one-on-ones are there. If there’s anything else, feel free to let me know, and congrats again!
252 00:31:28.910 ⇒ 00:31:31.789 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, thank you. Thanks for this welcome, guys.
253 00:31:32.540 ⇒ 00:31:42.399 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Make sure to keep contributing, and this new structure is something, like I said, I’m not seeing somewhere else, so I’m hoping to make the best use of it.
254 00:31:43.210 ⇒ 00:31:46.659 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. Hope you guys have a great weekend. Thanks so much for.
255 00:31:46.660 ⇒ 00:31:47.170 Advait Nandakumar Menon: You too.
256 00:31:47.170 ⇒ 00:31:48.950 Kaela Gallagher: Let me know if you need anything.
257 00:31:50.130 ⇒ 00:31:50.630 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
258 00:31:50.630 ⇒ 00:31:50.950 Jasmin Multani: here.
259 00:31:50.950 ⇒ 00:31:51.700 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, within that.