Throwback: Eclectic Career Paths with Google’s Hayete Gallot
From In Her Ellement by Boston Consulting Group BCG
September 1, 2025 · 30 min · Season 4 · Episode 22
About this episode
The episode revisits a conversation with Hayete Gallot about her eclectic career journey and the importance of curiosity and experimentation in finding the right career path.
While we’re busy working on new episodes, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite conversations from Season 3. When we first spoke with Hayete Gallott, she was Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Today, she is President of Customer Experience at Google. We thought this was a meaningful opportunity to revisit her reflections on career choices, change, and growth. How do you find the right career path when so many possibilities are in front of you? For Hayete Gallot, the answer has always been experimentation—trying new roles, seeing what sparks energy, and learning just as much from what doesn’t. That curiosity has shaped her eclectic journey. Hayete has moved across engineering, product management, marketing, sales, and business planning—always following the thread of what felt meaningful at the time. Behind that drive is a lesson she learned from her mother: independence matters, because life can change in an instant. 2:10 Lessons from Mom 5:58 Being an Information Sponge 6:14 The Value of Curiosity & Lifelong Learning 10:24 Day-to-Day Leadership at Microsoft 14:42 You Probably Won’t Be Working on What You Studied 17:13 Confidence…
People in this episode
Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan, Kamila Rakhimova
Guest: Hayete Gallot
Topics covered
- career paths
- experimentation
- curiosity
- leadership
- lifelong learning
Keywords
- career choices
- change
- growth
- independence
- confidence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Microsoft
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