I come from a very small village in India. I did most of my schooling in boarding school as there were no good schools for females.
Since childhood I was focused on my studies as looking at other girls/women in my village, I knew education is my only way out if I want to change my future and be a role model for other female in my village.
I started my career in July 2008. This was not the best time to start the work and the company (Agilent Technology) I was in, closed it’s R&D division just 10 months after I joined them. About 150 people lost the job. It wasn’t the best year to start the career in IT with the market meltdown at it’s peak.
My second company was Manhattan Associates, a product based on the Warehouse Management. Here I got an opportunity to visit Atlanta in USA to work for a client Walmart. The work was more client facing and I missed the hands-on. After about 22 months of being in this company I decided to change my job.
Year 2011 was the turning point when I applied for the Goldman Sachs. GS gave me the exposure to the business world and this is where I got opportunity to shine. However, this was a bit of struggle as this industry was male dominated and it was hard sometime to make your voice heard. In 2016, I joined Bloomberg and I love working here.