The Engineering Leadership Podcast
By The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)
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We share the most critical perspectives, habits & examples of great software engineering leaders to help evolve leadership in the tech industry.
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Harnessing Professional Strategies & Tech Performance Tools for Personal Growth w/ Chris Cravens #177
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Cold outreach & strategically expanding your business model into services w/ Jon Perl & Scott Wilson @ QA Wolf #176
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Building & leading a combined engineering & security org w/ Mike Hanley #175
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Adaptability in engineering orgs: how management systems, executive priorities & career transitions evolve w/ Cosmin Nicolaescu #174
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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“The Third Act” & exploring career paths beyond operational roles w/ Nidhi Gupta #173
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Healthy Tension: GTM & Product/Eng Collaboration at Hundreds of Millions ARR Scale w/ Tido Carriero & Joe Morrissey #172
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Driving innovation at large-scale orgs, translating leadership skills to successfully scale early-stage startups w/ Jeremy Burton #171
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Pivotal Leadership Moments & Career Decision-Making w/ Thuan Pham & Li Fan #170
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Using AI and Design to Maximize Customer Impact w/ Dheeraj Pandey #169
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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AI ethics/safety, applying AI to address societal challenges & becoming a board member w/ Lake Dai #168
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Software Dev in 2033 w/ Tara Hernandez, Erik Meijer, and Jocelyn Goldfein #167
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Career visualization, creating a pre-transition thesis & expanding your leadership to lead an entire business unit w/ Prashanthi Padmanabhan #166
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Reinforcing consensus-driven culture, deploying the “inverse Conway maneuver” & the unique principles behind Two Sigma’s engineering culture w/ Matt Greenwood #165
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Unlocking Empowered, Self-Sufficient Teams: A Deep Dive into 'First Team' Strategies w/ Monica Bajaj #164
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Building a culture of experimentation & innovation at massive scale w/ Kristian Lindwall, Pooja Dave & Mark Grey @ Spotify #163
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Move beyond measurement & inspire developer productivity w/ Laura Tacho #162
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Navigating 2024: Engineering management principles to tackle the unknowns & challenges ahead w/ Andrew Lau #161
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Building data engineering teams from scratch & transitioning to a full-scale data function w/ Colleen Tartow #160
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Organizing eng by strategic themes / complete units of value & consensus building to drive velocity w/ Emad Elwany #159
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Rapidly operating early-stage engineering at global scale, mapping eng workflows to personas & pivoting pricing / business models w/ Scott Woody #158
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Becoming a great coach: Practices & principles to help you make a bigger impact on your teams w/ Jill Wetzler #157
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Closing Executive Leadership Skill Gaps: A Portfolio Approach to Career Growth w/ Kathleen Vignos #156
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham #155
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Navigating complex stakeholders, competing interests & gaining buy-in w/ Pete Peterson #154
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Self-advocacy & how to coach your team to be better self-advocates w/ Shailvi Wakhlu #153
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Using GenAI to address cross-functional collaboration challenges & enhance engineering leadership w/ Clemens Mewald #152
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Building teams and culture to navigate catastrophe w/ Ken Pickering #151
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Strategies for creating efficient orgs & getting the most out of your eng team w/ Jamie Tischart #150
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Reduce friction & create better alignment between product & engineering w/ Hubert Palan #149
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Operating in a high-stakes, high-scale environment & implementing “secure by design” w/ Bhawna Singh #148
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Navigating conflict in large-scale orgs w/ competing priorities w/ Ritu Bhargava #147
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Building your security team & tool stack w/ Laura Bell Main #146
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar #145
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Make Great Decisions Quickly, the Unscary Way w/ Alamelu Radhakrishnan #144
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Growth Through Transitions w/ Prachi Gupta and Chris Chiu #143
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Turn Your Career into a Rocket w/ Oksana Kubushyna #142
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Making the Transition from Large to Smaller Companies w/ Vinod Marur & Ali Irturk #141
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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How Businesses, Creators, and Researchers are Building the “Generative Generation" w/ Mira Murati, Naveen Gavini & Vijay Karunamurthy #140
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Compassionate accountability & accepting conflict w/ Marc Lesser #139
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Leveraging your values as first-principles to shape strategy & decision making in your eng org w/ Ludo Antonov #138
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The Surprising Power of Remote Work: Higher Trust Teams w/ Sarah Milstein #137
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Summer Break 2023 - Back Next Week!
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Career adaptation & meeting the evolving needs of your company w/ Barbara Nelson #136
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Rapid prototyping & developing your product instinct w/ David Crawshaw #135
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Leading beyond domain expertise & laying early-stage security program foundations w/ Matt Spitz #134
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Becoming a more strategic contributor, becoming resilient against AI, & enduring economic downturns w/ Han Yuan #133
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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The next evolution to measure & improve developer productivity & experience w/ Abi Noda #132
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May 30, 2023 |
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Redefining success and incorporating relational healing practices into eng leadership & product development w/ Tammarrian Rogers #131
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May 23, 2023 |
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Maximizing the shift to engineering efficiency w/ Alamelu Radhakrishnan #130
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May 16, 2023 |
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Community insights from our Pop-Up Podcast Booth at ELC Annual! #129
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May 10, 2023 |
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Adopting a GM mindset & building a resilient business w/ Sandeep Chennakeshu #128
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May 02, 2023 |
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Navigating the Acquisition Journey: Insights on Transparent Communication, Team Integration, and Strategic / Operational Shifts w/ Johnny Ray Austin #127
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Eng Founder’s Takeover: Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov #126
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Maximizing R&D spend, engineering efficiency & the journey from eng to operations w/ Madalina Tanasie #125
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Navigating Multi-Product Expansion: Leadership & Career Insights from Figma’s CTO, Kris Rasmussen #124
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Rippling's Response to the SVB Collapse: A Story of Leadership, Crisis Management, Clarity and Communication w/ Albert Strasheim #123
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Cost-effective scaling & engineering efficiency w/ Shailesh Kumar #122
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Org specialization dilemmas & operating in regulatory environments w/ Kenny Shin #121
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Resource advocacy, frameworks for saying yes / no, & removing critical points of failure w/ Megan Kacholia #120
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Gaining cross-functional leadership at large & small scale companies & investing in org maturity w/ Bhavini Soneji #119
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Building platforms vs. products & leveraging OODA loops in leadership w/ Oksana Kubushyna #118
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Increasing capacity to win in an economic downturn, cultivating a founder’s mindset & product ownership in engineering w/ Shadi Rostami #117
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Resilience engineering, learning from incidents and unintuitive perspectives on incident analysis w/ John Allspaw #116
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Leading through an economic downturn & bridging the gap between engineering & business w/ Ryan Graciano #115
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Making Bold Decisions and Taking Risks in Your Career w/ Annie Cheng, Claire Hough, Lisa Gelobter & Arezoo Riahi #114
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Becoming A Force Multiplier w/ Cal Henderson & Maria Kazandjieva #113
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Lessons on being deliberate w/ Megan Kacholia #112
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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How to do an effective re-org w/ Aaron Erickson & Mike Tria #111
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Engineering Founder’s Takeover: Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda #110
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Authentic networking, community building, and digital transformation w/ Yvette Pasqua #109
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Building a startup-within-a-startup w/ Heidi Williams #108
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Sustaining multi-phase, long-term tech transformation w/ Paul Dix #107
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Building self-sufficient teams and operating in constrained funding environments w/ Elaine Zhou #106
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Scaling your leadership 10x in 6 years and leading outside your technical depth w/ Claus Moberg #105
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Leading across different orders of magnitude & high-leverage communication with Kit Colbert #104
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Reinventing your role and refocusing your team in the face of the unknown w/ Maher Saba #103
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Optimizing the product trio w/ Saumya Bhatnagar #102
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Customer narratives, business fluency & investing in developer experience w/ Marco Argenti #101
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Celebrating 100 episodes - our favorite moments from the Engineering Leadership Podcast so far
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Scaling your leadership to 3x exec roles and transforming your values, systems & habits w/ Vinay Hiremath CTO @ Loom
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Unconscious patterns of human behavior that hold us back w/ Luther Kitahata #98
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The cost of “aspirational mismatches” (and how to avoid them) w/ Lisa Dusseault #97
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Back in 2 Weeks! Patrick’s Getting Married
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Making intentional career decisions w/ Ali Littman & Ali Irturk #96
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Leading through ‘black swan’ events & pivoting AI/ML product strategy w/ Bridget Frey #95
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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“Cloud-flation” & preventing runaway cloud costs w/ Leon Kuperman @ Cast.ai #94
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Building your data engineering org w/ Taylor Murphy @ Meltano #93
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Growth & mobile engineering post-strategic transformation w/ Atish Das Sarma & Shannon Ma @ Patreon #92
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Eliminating hierarchy, going direct & removing team friction w/ Greg Czajkowski #91
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Alignment is the key to delivering great products & outcomes w/ Jonathon Hensley #90
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Operational & Organizational Innovation w/ Zhichun Li #89
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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From IC to global leadership: career growth as a Technical Advisor w/ William A. Adams #88
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Culture & self-compassion w/ Kevin Eyres #87
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Storytelling and the Art of Public Speaking w/ Arquay Harris #86
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May 31, 2022 |
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Mindsets, Skillsets, and Toolsets w/ Sri Shivananda & Joel Beasley #85
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May 24, 2022 |
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Engineering Execution is a Strategic Weapon w/ Bill Coughran & Melody Meckfessel #84
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May 17, 2022 |
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Building Your Digital Technology Org from the Ground-Up w/ Anshu Narula & Khawaja Shams #83
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May 10, 2022 |
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The Evolution of a CTO: How Your Leadership Can Change through Hypergrowth w/ Ryan King & Clarence Chio #82
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May 03, 2022 |
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SPECIAL: Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie #81
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Special *LIVE* preview of the 2022 ELC Virtual Summit & community-led round tables #80
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Translating engineering to the CEO w/ Andrew Lau and Eli Daniel
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Group coaching, team accountability & ‘next-level’ goals with Joy Dixon #78
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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How eng orgs (and careers) evolve through hyper-growth w/ Samir Naik #77
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Hypergrowth, Scaling & Org Design w/ Surabhi Gupta #76
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Career Growth & Internal Mobility w/ Tara Ellis #75
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Conflict Optimization with Jordan Adler #74
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Belonging, Retention, & Human-Centered Leadership with Lucius DiPhillips #73
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Why Engineering Needs a Seat at the Negotiating Table with Melody Hildebrandt #72
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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“Finding Flow” in Engineering Leadership with Rob Zuber #71
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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AI/ML Start-up Trends with Anna Patterson #70
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Surprising Lessons from Sales with Maulie Dass #69
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Transitioning to Crypto with Lewis Tuff, VPE @ Blockchain.com #68
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Building Inclusive Products with Jeremy King #67
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Addressing Burnout in Your Engineering Org with Erica Lockheimer, Sabry Tozin & Lori Allen #66
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Trailer: Our 2022 Season Launches Next Week!
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Building Autonomous Teams & Engineering Career Ladders with Sri Viswanath #65
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Impact of Mentoring & Paying It Forward with Li Fan #64
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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BONUS: Building Your AI Organization with Maia Brenner
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Speed vs. Quality with Richard Wong #63
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Changing Priorities & Making Massive Engineering Pivots with Vivian Shen #62
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The “Energy Audit,” Reclaiming Your Time, & Increasing Ownership with Brad Henrickson #61
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Debate! Flat vs. Hierarchical Organizations w/ Farhan Thawar & Jerry Krikheli #60
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Lessons on Hyper-Growth & Scaling w/ David Singleton & Bill Coughran #59
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Build or Buy: Scaling Through Acquisitions & Ownership w/ Marianna Tessel & Aileen Lee #58
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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BONUS: Internal mobility, mission-driven decisions, & self-service infrastructure w/ Guillermo Fisher
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Productivity Practices to Scale Your Time & Mind w/ Ashton Kutcher & Ryan Petersen #57
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Strategies for Closing Engineering Candidates with Darian Shimy #56
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Technical Interview Tips for Effective Communication w/ Lusen Mendel & Rohit Grover #55
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Strategies to Tend, Feed & Grow your Professional Network w/ Dan Portillo & Jim Cook #54
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Compensation Mindset & Strategy with Thanh Nguyen & Cyrus F #53
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Attracting Top Talent & Engineering Branding w/ Cosmin Nicolaescu, Kris Rasmussen, Brad Henrickson & Sam Wholley #52
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Building a Diverse Hiring Pipeline with Ragini Holloway & Gabe Westmaas #51
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Optimizing & Scaling Your Hiring Process w/ Vinithra Varadharajan, Cat Miller & Keng He #50
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Sourcing Engineering Candidates in a Remote World w/ Kah Seng Tay, Shauna Geraghty & Mike Pinkowish #49
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The State of Hiring w/ Maia Josebachvili, Bret Reckard & Erica Lockheimer #48
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Building technology that endures with Melissa Binde #47
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Becoming a site lead, bootstrapping new teams & re-thinking vacation in a pandemic w/ Sarah Clatterbuck #46
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Non-Incremental Career Transitions with Asif Makhani #45
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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“Just Work” with Kim Scott & Trier Bryant #44
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Managing Up with Jan Chong #43
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Reflections on Incidents & Resilience with Nick Rockwell #42
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May 25, 2021 |
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Bridging the Gender Gap with Christina Wick #41
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May 18, 2021 |
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Unlock Developer Productivity AND Happiness with Allan Leinwand #40
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May 11, 2021 |
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Get Your Career Unstuck with Quentin Clark #39
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May 04, 2021 |
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Align & Scale Engineering AND Product with Jeremy Henrickson #38
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Navigate Career Pivots with John Kim #37
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Superpowers, Psychological Safety & Empowering Your Team with Tia Caldwell #36
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Parallel Engineering Paths, Culture Building & Co-Founding (part 2) with Viraj Mody & Tom Kleinpeter #35
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Parallel Engineering Paths, Culture Building & Co-Founding (part 1) with Viraj Mody & Tom Kleinpeter #34
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Build Your Personal Board of Directors with Harpaul Sambhi Founder & CEO @ Magical #33
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Ask Powerful Questions with Alexis Rask, Executive Coach & Partner @ Sweat Equity Ventures #32
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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How to Lead Large Scale Projects with Wendy Shepperd GVP Engineering @ New Relic #31
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Spend Time On What Matters with Will Larson CTO @ Calm #30
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Remove Fear of Failure From Your Org with Edward Kim Co-Founder & CTO @ Gusto #29
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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"The Imperfect Path" with Erica Lockheimer VPE, LinkedIn Learning @ LinkedIn #28
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Leading AI/ML Teams with Craig Martell Head of LyftML @ Lyft #27
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Give Up Control and Expand Your Impact with Maria Latushkin CTO @ Omada Health #26
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Growing Into a VPE - Patterns & Anti-Patterns ft. Cathy Polinsky, Jerry Krikheli, Richard Wong, Erica Lockheimer & Claire Lew #25
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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*Bonus* Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams with Doug Gaff, VPE @ Zapier & Emma Tang, EM @ Stripe #24
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams with Doug Gaff, VPE @ Zapier & Emma Tang, EM @ Stripe #23
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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How to Become a Startup VPE with Martin Casado, General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz & Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief @ Andreessen Horowitz #22
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Conscious Career Growth (part 2) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #21
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Conscious Career Growth (part 1) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #20
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Operationalizing Values and Principles with Andrew Fong, VP of Infrastructure @ Dropbox #19
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #18
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 1), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #17
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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The Value of Being Direct with Eisar Lipkovitz, EVP of Engineering @ Lyft #16
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Operating under High Pressure with Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM @ Google Ads #15
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Part 2 - Coaching, Delegation and Trust with Darian Shimy, Engineering Lead @ Square #14
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Part 1 - Coaching, Delegation and Trust with Darian Shimy, Engineering Lead @ Square #13
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Leading Through Uncertainty with David Silverman #12
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May 22, 2020 |
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Managing Remotely: How to Give Critical Feedback Effectively with Jonathan Raymond #11
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May 14, 2020 |
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Speed & Creativity in Recruiting with Farhan Thawar, VP Engineering @ Shopify #10
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May 08, 2020 |
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Technology, Leadership, & Opportunity with Max Levchin, former CTO @ PayPal & Ben Jun, CEO @ HVF Labs #9
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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The Role of Engineering Leaders in Recruiting with Aditya Agarwal former CTO @ Dropbox & Dan Portillo Talent Partner @ Greylock #8
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Zooming Out From Engineering: featuring Alyssa Henry, Head of Seller & Developer Business Units @ Square & Chanda Dharap, VP of Engineering @ NodeSource #7
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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How to Tackle (Organizational) Debt with Jonathan Raymond, Founder & CEO @ Refound #6
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Leadership Principles for Remote Teams (and All) with Jason Warner, CTO @ Github #5
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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The Meaning Revolution with Fred Kofman Advisor, Leadership Development @ Google #4
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies with Reid Hoffman Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Partner @ Greylock & Sarah Guo, General Partner @ Greylock Partners #3
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Managing Creative Teams with James Everingham, Head of Engineering, Calibra @ Facebook #2
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Mastering Difficult Conversations With Sarah Clatterbuck, Director of Engineering @ Google #1
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Mar 05, 2020 |