How And Why I Got Into Microsoft Teams Ft. Ritika Gupta, PM

Ritika was almost done with Microsoft. She decided to move to Bangalore, left her job, booked tickets to Tanzania for a long vacay, and packed her bags too! And then her colleague at Microsoft popped up and asked her if she would like to move to the USA instead! In 3 days, Ritika Gupta, Ex Yatra & Dainik Jagran, MICA alum, had taken up her current role as Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Teams. In 3 months, she did move to a new city as planned, just this time it was in the USA! In this 3rd and last video of Ritika's interview, she talks to us about Microsoft Teams, and how they are managing the extra workload due to COVID 19 and the work from home policy. Check out this video to know how a product manager can prioritise problems and adapt to new situations!   This is part 3 of Ritika's full interview. You can watch Part 1 here: Never Wanted To Join L'Oreals, P&G's Of The World - Ritika Gupta, Program Manager - Microsoft To watch Part 2, click here: You Must Ask The Right Questions As A Product Manager Ft. Ritika Gupta, Microsoft Teams

What's This?
This is a new series of talks that we are doing amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the lockdowns and the curfews, we are making all the efforts to ensure that you keep getting insightful and relevant content. So sit back and make the most of your social distancing with this episode of ‘Konversations in Quarantine'!

Summary
In this last video of Ritika's interview, she talks about her long stint at Microsoft. She shares how her first role at Microsoft involved working with Cortana and designing skills that the virtual artificial intelligence based assistant could use. She next talks about how she got into Microsoft Teams after nearly joining Amazon. She shares the story of wanting to move to Bangalore and ending up in the USA.

She takes us through her time at Microsoft Teams and the kind of work she does currently. She talks about the relevance of a digital product like Teams in this time of COVID 19 and lockdowns. She shares how a product manager has to prioritise and choose problems to solve when too much work pops up. She also talks about the relevance of an engineering background for a product manager and how she sees her future career.
If you want to know more about working on digital product design, this is a must watch.

Key Takeaways
1. As a Product Manager, you need to be able to connect with like minded people in your team or organization who can help you be more productive.
2. A Product Manager must have the aptitude to pick up required and relevant skills depending on the product they're working for.
3. It helps to be able to understand computer and coding related basics as a product manager.
4. Taking the time and effort to connect with people is very important if you want to do good, impactful work in any organisation.

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