Victory
After all of the agonizing, crying and moaning over the past couple of weeks, it turns out that either I have no insight into reality, or I whipped myself into extraordinary performance, because the big review was this week (and there was a second one Friday which luckily I did not have to run), and apparently I am a super-star. I was blown away by how smoothly everything went during the presentation, while people had been arguing with me over every sub-point right up until the moment I began.
The triumph was that all of the features I presented were promoted (as were all of the ones that my colleague Jared presented on Friday), with the exception of one feature which they made the responsibility of another group. To add whipped cream and fudge chocolate to the sundae, I received something like six or seven individual emails praising my presentation and work, and Bob even gave me a recognition award! It felt so wonderful, having my personal feeling that I had worked hard and produced something pretty damn good (given the constraints) match up with all of my colleagues.
So I would easily say that this week makes up for everything that happened before, and to a certain extent justifies it. There is something much more satisfying about succeeding at something hard, and I feel confident that the next round will go much more smoothly, now that I know what to expect. So I guess I'll be enjoying my career at Intel a while longer.
In other news, Bob became my new manager (under Gurbir) in our new organization. This works out well for me as Bob is a great guy and quite in touch with what I am doing. I think he was dismayed that his 27 year streak of avoiding management was broken, but I will do my best not to give him too much of a headache over it.
So rest assured, I may suffer during the downs, but there are definitely ups, too.
The triumph was that all of the features I presented were promoted (as were all of the ones that my colleague Jared presented on Friday), with the exception of one feature which they made the responsibility of another group. To add whipped cream and fudge chocolate to the sundae, I received something like six or seven individual emails praising my presentation and work, and Bob even gave me a recognition award! It felt so wonderful, having my personal feeling that I had worked hard and produced something pretty damn good (given the constraints) match up with all of my colleagues.
So I would easily say that this week makes up for everything that happened before, and to a certain extent justifies it. There is something much more satisfying about succeeding at something hard, and I feel confident that the next round will go much more smoothly, now that I know what to expect. So I guess I'll be enjoying my career at Intel a while longer.
In other news, Bob became my new manager (under Gurbir) in our new organization. This works out well for me as Bob is a great guy and quite in touch with what I am doing. I think he was dismayed that his 27 year streak of avoiding management was broken, but I will do my best not to give him too much of a headache over it.
So rest assured, I may suffer during the downs, but there are definitely ups, too.