Indian Executive Who Completed Two Decades at Google Shares Six Career Lessons That Shaped Him

To build a fantastic career, we need to focus on consistency, positivity and hard work, as well as smart work. To win in professional life, it is also important that we follow a trajectory and that we must stay focused on our aim. In fact, to be successful at any stage of professional life, we must follow habits that are important and helpful for us.

For a successful long career, we have to improve our skills as well and adopt the new environment and technology. Now, a post is going viral where an Indian executive who was wrong at Google for nearly two decades shared the professional lessons which helped him in his career.

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He stated that the journey taught him much more than just technical abilities, from joining Google India when it was still a tiny team to leading projects in the US and Europe. “This month I completed twenty years at Google. I joined Google India when we did not have big offices. A small team, no cafeterias and a pilot with a code name – Google was entering payments with Checkout.” he wrote.

Two decades at Google were commemorated by Shankar Murali, an engineering analyst manager in the company’s Trust and Safety Payments division in California, according to his LinkedIn post. He provided six career lessons that he feels contributed to his success, as well as considering Google’s development throughout the years. Murali stated in a reflection on his career that one of the most important things he discovered was that effective leadership starts with listening. He remembered going to his managers with problems and wondering why they didn’t come up with answers right away.

(Photo: LinkedIn)

(Photo: LinkedIn)

Leadership is listening. Whenever I went to my leads with a problem, they would just listen. It puzzled me — why no solutions? The secret: by talking it through, I was solving it myself. The best leaders knew that and gave me the room. I try to give my team the same.

Stay curious. Learn, keep learning and share the knowledge. Knowledge shared is the only knowledge that scales.

Lead by example. I have pushed my teams to push their limits, but never from behind.

Care for your people. Everyone is going through something you cannot see. Your pressures are yours — do not make them your team’s. Lead with empathy, assume good intent.

Grow thick skin. Perspectives differ. Agree to disagree, but with respect. Respect is not optional.

Love the change. Every single year, something changed — products, problems, leadership styles. The people who thrived welcomed it.

I do not know exactly what the next chapter holds, but I know my curiosity and my habit of doing something different will only get sharper.

He expressed his gratitude to the managers, leaders and colleagues who encouraged him during his 20 year career, saying that he was appreciative of the opportunities, difficulties and sincere criticism he received.