Level-up Engineering
105 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLevel-up Engineering reveals actionable management secrets from some of the most successful engineering leaders (VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, CTO).
This podcast brings you key insights from fellow engineering managers, to level-up your management skills and to take your software development team to the next level.
The podcast covers the biggest challenges engineering leaders face, showing exactly how others overcame these challenges. Learn the best practices on management and leadership to understand people and organizations as much as you understand code.
We interview engineering leaders and dive into the fundamentals behind hiring and retaining developers, motivating developers, scaling dev teams, mentoring developers, and much more!
The episodes are brought to you by Apex Lab, a digital product development agency offering end-to-end, stress-free product delivery. Check them out on https://www.apexlab.io/
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Episodes
Managing Remote Teams: Katie Womersley (VP of Engineering at Buffer)
October 03, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 42.8 MBWorking with a remote team has many upsides, but managing a remote developer team is one tough job to have. There are loads of challenges you wouldn’t have to worry about in an office, like possible time zone differences or making sure people feel part of the company. It requires a lot of attention to keep everything on track. We sat down with Katie Womersley, the VP of Engineering at Buffer. She’s managing many remote engineering teams, and she shared a lot of invaluable experience she pic...
Scaling Developer Teams: Rich Archbold Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom
September 30, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 59 MBWe’ll be covering: -Biggest challenges when scaling a developer team -How he overcame these challenges -First steps to scaling teams -How to get hiring right Common mistakes when scaling engineering teams: "I would say the biggest one is not putting enough emphasis on hiring for behavior and attitude. It’s the most expensive one too. Understand the team you're hiring for, and what's the balance you need to have in there. The mistake we made in the past is hiring too many juniors. Unle...
Mentoring Developers: Gergely Orosz Engineering Manager at Uber
September 30, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 59.8 MBWe’ll be covering: -Mentoring in tech today -His approach to mentoring -Challenges in mentoring -How to build a mentoring program Interview: https://codingsans.com/blog/mentoring-developers How do you think a company could implement a mentoring program? "I've not seen many companies with good mentorship programs and this includes Uber. It's a work in progress, but at least there's something. On the other hand, despite the fact that there's not much structure or best practices, I hea...
Mentoring Developers: Gergely Orosz (Engineering Manager at Uber)
September 30, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 59.7 MBMentoring is underutilized in the software development industry today. So, we did an interview with Gergely Orosz, currently an engineering manager at Uber, who has gained a lot of experience with mentoring over his years as a developer/manager. In this episode, we're covering: Mentoring in tech today His approach to mentoring Challenges in mentoring How to build a mentoring program Excerpt from the interview: How do you think a company could implement a mentoring program? "I've not ...
Scaling Developer Teams: Rich Archbold (Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom)
September 30, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 59.1 MBSoftware companies often grow quickly, which means developer teams often suffer to manage scaling at the pace of growth and necessary workload. We sat down with Rich Archbold to pick his brain on how they scaled developer teams at Amazon, Facebook and Intercom. In this episode we’ll be covering: Biggest challenges when scaling a developer team How he overcame these challenges First steps to scaling teams How to get hiring right Excerpt from the interview: Common mistakes when scaling ...