SimpleLeadership Podcast
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSimpleLeadership specifically focuses on improving the craft of software engineering leadership. As a VP of Engineering & CTO I am acutely aware of the lack of good resources available for new and existing software engineering managers. SimpleLeadership is designed for both new and experienced software & technology managers who want to build high-performing teams, better motivate & mentor their employees, reduce attrition and advance their career. It is for people who want to go beyond just being a manager and become a true leader.
In this interview based show I ask each guest to share their journey from individual contributor to software engineering manager and provide any guidance on the transition. The SimpleLeadership Podcast will present real and actionable stories from people who have navigated their way from being an individual contributor into a software engineering manager. We will also hear from experts on specifics of team dynamics, motivation, feedback, leadership and many more aspects of being a successful engineering manager.
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Diversity & Inclusion in Tech with Christine Awad
May 10, 2021 01:00 - 40 minutes - 33.5 MBWhat are the challenges that accompany being a woman leader in technology? How can you be an ally for women in your workplace? How do you overcome imposter syndrome? These are just a few of the questions Christine Awad—the Director of Engineering at Facebook—so kindly answers in this episode of Simple Leadership.
Engineer Your Teams for Impact with Ashish Aggarwal
January 11, 2021 02:00 - 41 minutes - 33.7 MBHow do you build an engineering team of A-players? What does a well-rounded high-performing team look like? Why is engineering for impact more important than solving hard problems? In a world where engineers are looking to pad their resume and solve cutting-edge problems, Ashish Aggarwal shares the one thing that is far more important: solving your customer’s problems. In this episode of Simple Leadership, he walks through building high-performing teams, solving customer problems, and the be...
A Discussion of Good Technical Debt with Jon Thornton
December 14, 2020 02:00 - 25 minutes - 21.4 MBJon Thornton worked at some small companies in NYC before he ended up at Squarespace. He’s been able to build a new product and new team—their email marketing product. He launched that and has since been supporting other products. Throughout his career, he’s learned how to manage technical debt. What is the difference between technical debt and good technical debt? What is a framework for using technical debt? Listen to this episode of Simple Leadership for Jon’s advice on managing technical...
Redefining Parental Leave with Matt Newkirk
October 05, 2020 01:00 - 42 minutes - 34.9 MBBeing in a management position in any industry can often leave you overwhelmed. Striking a balance between your work and personal life is already difficult. So how does a manager take parental leave? Matt Newkirk—the engineering lead for Etsy’s International Customer Experience initiative—has worked out some of the kinks. I’m the father of three girls. During their birth, I was fully involved in startups and was never able to take parental leave. Not only did I miss out, but as a manager ...
Hiring Engineers: Junior, Senior, or Boot Camp Graduates? Johnny Ray Austin Shares His Take
August 24, 2020 01:00 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MBIf you’re an engineer in a leadership role where you’re dealt with the task of developing teams, the hiring process can be daunting. Do you hire junior engineers that you can shape and mold? Or senior engineers who are experienced, but come with baggage? And how do you throw boot camp graduates into the mix? Johnny Ray Austin joins me to lend his thoughts on the hiring process, including what he looks for in an engineer. Don’t miss it! Johnny is an experienced engineering executive and int...
Technology Leadership Begins with These Traits with Emad Georgy
April 20, 2020 01:00 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MBToday’s guest—Emad Georgy—is passionate about technology leadership. He’s a CTO Consultant and the Founder and CTO of Georgy Technology Leadership. Emad has been in the tech industry for over 25 years. His hybrid approach to technology management—focusing on both the practical and cultural elements of leadership—makes Emad a trusted and valued partner helping both domestic startups and global enterprises scale and grow. In this episode of Simple Leadership, we chat about what cultivating ...
Overcoming Engineering Leadership Challenges with Farhan Thawar
April 06, 2020 01:00 - 44 minutes - 36.5 MBTransitioning an engineering leadership position to a work-from-home model can be a challenge. For some engineers, working remotely is the norm. For others, such as those working for Shopify, being forced to work from home because of the Coronavirus is a whole new ballgame. In this episode of Simple Leadership, Farhan Thawar joins me to chat about his transition into working from home and how Shopify has made the process manageable. We talk about the benefits of coding in pairs, whether or n...
How to Manage Remote Teams [and Help Them Thrive] with Dana Lawson
March 23, 2020 01:00 - 48 minutes - 39.7 MBIf you’re in a leadership position in the engineering industry and have suddenly been thrust into working remotely, it may feel like your world has been turned upside down. In this episode of Simple Leadership, Dana Lawson and I discuss a few tips to help you manage remote teams. You want your team to thrive and be successful during a time of great uncertainty. Dana describes herself as an atypical engineer. She wanted to attend college to be an artist but soon realized the ‘starving artis...
How to Implement Good Software Development Processes with Eric Elliott
March 09, 2020 01:00 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBA management role in software development can be difficult to navigate. You need to keep a high-level perspective on projects while making sure they go smoothly. Eric Elliott, today’s guest on the show, believes that you need to implement coding quality practices such as test-driven development. In this episode, we talk about why software development processes such test-driven development makes an impact and why it’s important to remove bugs. We’ll also talk about how to train developers and...
Follow These Steps to Combat Loneliness in Leadership with Suzan Bond
February 24, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes - 35.6 MBIf you are transitioning into an executive or leadership role in an organization, you can find yourself dealing with incredible loneliness. You also deal with a change in power dynamics, gaps in information, and a lack of support systems. It is difficult to prepare for the change from “getting work done” to being an “influencer”. As a former COO, today’s guest, Suzan Bond, understands the struggle of the transition. She joins me today to share some ways you can combat loneliness and ease the...
How to Manage Efficiently Through a Merger or Acquisition with Loïc Houssier
January 27, 2020 02:00 - 45 minutes - 37.4 MBEffectively leading a team through an acquisition or merger can be shaky ground to navigate. You aren’t just dealing with merging teams, tech stack, and processes—but also a culture. Your team needs leadership that is open, honest, and transparent about the process. If your company is going through a merger or acquisition and you want to arm yourself with some tools to manage your team efficiently through the process, learn from the expertise of today’s guest, Loïc Houssier. In this episode ...
Cultivating Diversity in the Workplace with Tess Hatch and Jess Mink
September 30, 2019 01:00 - 52 minutes - 42.9 MBCultivating diversity in the workplace is at the forefront of challenges that starts-ups face. Creating diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, and even opinions and skill sets is something every business must implement. You need to build a team with diverse perspectives in different backgrounds. Tess Hatch from Bessemer Venture Partners and Jess Mink with Auth0 lend me their expertise in today’s episode of Simple Leadership. We’ll cover everything from hiring the right people, what investors ...
Why Becoming An Effective Leader Involves Changing The Language You Use
July 29, 2019 02:00 - 36 minutes - 30.3 MBBeing an effective leader is about more than just managing people efficiently. Krister Ungerböck (unger-bahk) joins us today to talk about why being a leader is about changing the language you use. Krister is a keynote speaker, CEO Coach, and global expert in The Language of Leadership. Prior to retiring at age 42, Krister was the award-winning CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world. His expertise in the Language of Leadership is based upon his unique experien...
How to Improve Your Management Skills with Jocelyn Goldfein
June 09, 2019 04:07 - 50 minutes - 41.2 MBWhat does it take to up your game and improve your management skills? Do you need to read better books or get around the right environment? Here to help us dig in and understand some key aspects of an effective manger is, Jocelyn Goldfein. Jocelyn is a technology executive and investor. She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners. Previously she was a director of engineering at Facebook and vice president of engineering at VMware. Jocel...
How to Create an Empowering Work Environment with Scott Carleton
May 27, 2019 01:00 - 42 minutes - 35 MBWhat does it look like to create a work environment where employees can succeed and thrive? Are there steps you can take as a leader to encourage and support your team members in a meaningful way? Here to help us understand what makes Asana a, “Top 5 Best Place to Work” is my guest, Scott Carleton. Scott is currently the Site Lead of Asana’s NYC office, dedicated to enabling all teams to collaborate effortlessly. Previously, Scott was the VP of Technology at Andela, empowering engineering ...
An Inside Look at How a Distributed Company Operates with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig
May 13, 2019 01:00 - 46 minutes - 38.2 MBAs the economy and various business sectors continue to evolve, many leaders are looking at how transitioning to a distributed company might be the best option going forward. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Zapier’s Bryan Helmig to discuss all the benefits and some of the challenges involved with running a distributed company. Bryan co-founded Zapier in late 2011 with his friends Mike and Wade, and they were soon admitted to Y Combinator’s YCS12 batch. Zapier is a web automation ap...
Great Leadership Can Be Learned with Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale
April 29, 2019 01:00 - 48 minutes - 39.3 MBThere’s good news for all you tech leaders who feel you got thrown into management without much preparation - leadership can be learned. My guests on this episode of SimpleLeadership are Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, the founders of Raw Signal Group - a company with a simple promise, “We Build Better Bosses.” They are also best-selling authors of the book, “How F*cked Up Is Your Management?: An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership.” I can't think of two people better sui...
Best Practices for Managing Remote Teams with Steph Smith
April 08, 2019 04:14 - 48 minutes - 47.4 MBSteph is the Head of Publications at Toptal, a serial maker, and a supporter of women in technology. Outside of leading a remote team of a few dozen, she is a self-taught developer that builds projects related to women in technology, remote work, and self-improvement. She’s launched products that have hit #1 on Product Hunt, articles that have trended the top of Hacker News, and was nominated for Maker of the Year in 2018. She actively supports women in technology by speaking about ...
Having a Growth Mindset with Patrick Pena
March 18, 2019 05:53 - 38 minutes - 37.6 MBPatrick has spent his career applying his engineering talents to the healthcare industry. In that time he’s focused on learning and growing as an engineer, a teammate, team lead, and more recently as an engineering manager. He considers himself a people gardener and coalition builder and believes in people-first leadership. Patrick loves teaching and tackling people and process opportunities to help teams and individuals grow. On today's show we discuss communication, psychology, having ...
Bootstrapping Inclusion with Jason Wong
February 25, 2019 06:36 - 38 minutes - 38.3 MBJason Wong is a proven engineering leader, diversity & inclusion consultant, and doughnut enthusiast. With almost two decades of experience in building and scaling web applications, he has worked in a range of industries from academia to online media and e-commerce. He helped establish web development and administrative computing at Columbia College, led development of premium video streaming services at Yahoo! Sports, and spent seven years at Etsy leading their Infrastructure Engineering te...
How Culture Can Help Your Teams Scale with Eric Elliott
February 03, 2019 18:15 - 53 minutes - 51.6 MBEric Elliott is a distributed systems expert, and author of the books "Programming JavaScript Applications" and "Composing Software". He builds and advises development teams for crypto projects, and has contributed to software experiences for Adobe Systems, Zumba Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, BBC, and top recording artists including Usher, Frank Ocean, Metallica, and many more. He spends most of his time in the San Francisco Bay Area with the most beautiful woman in the world. ...
Running Remote Teams with Liam Martin
December 17, 2018 05:21 - 54 minutes - 52.7 MBLiam is the co-founder and CMO of TimeDoctor.com, Running Remote Conference and Staff.com. After graduating with a masters in Sociology from McGill University, Liam opened a small tutoring company which grew to over 100 employees, and looked to solve a problem with remote employees not reporting accurate work data which turned into Staff.com. He consults on outsourcing and process design and is passionate about how to gain insights into the inner workings of how people work. On today's epi...
Purpose, Motivation and Empathy with John Rouda
December 03, 2018 04:53 - 46 minutes - 45 MBJohn Rouda is an IT Leader and Computer Science Professor. Currently, he is an IT Director and he teaches as an adjunct professor at both York Technical College and Winthrop University. John has spoken at numerous conferences and is currently on the board of the Interface Cyber Security Conference. John’s past experiences include more than a decade of Technical management in both software development and network infrastructure. In 1999, John Rouda and 2 partners founded a business developing...
The Importance of Relationships with Saurabh Daftary
November 19, 2018 04:38 - 42 minutes - 42.2 MBSaurabh is currently an Engineering Manager at Twilio. He joined Twilio about 4 years back as a senior engineer. He then moved into a tech lead position and then transitioned into management about 1.5 years ago. Since then, he has grown into managing multiple engineering teams within Twilio's Messaging organization. Before joining Twilio, Saurabh worked in a couple of fin-tech startups in the Boston area mostly in an Individual Contributor role. He has a strong passion for engineering leader...
The Importance of Training Junior Developers with Michelle Brenner
October 29, 2018 03:31 - 37 minutes - 37 MBMichelle is a Senior Backend Engineer at ChowNow, helping local restaurants grow their business by strengthening relationships with their customers. She has previously served as both an engineer and a manager for the last 7+ years in entertainment technology. She has worked tirelessly to help movies and television get made faster and cheaper, saving productions millions of dollars. A Philadelphia native, she has a background in Media Arts and is a self-taught Python developer. Michelle is n...
Tips for Scaling Engineering Teams with Darragh Curran
September 17, 2018 01:25 - 49 minutes - 48.1 MBDarragh is currently the VP of Engineering at Intercom. (One of my favorite companies). He joined Intercom in early 2012 as a product engineer and Intercom's second outside hire. Fast forward to today, and he is Intercom's VP of Engineering where he has grown and scaled the organization into a world class Engineering team. Prior to Intercom, Darragh worked at numerous other companies including Amazon.com. Darragh is mentor on the Plato network and is passionate about the outdoors and his fam...
Engineering Managing and Leadership with Camille Fournier
August 20, 2018 03:04 - 45 minutes - 44.4 MBCamille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, a financial company in New York City. Prior to joining Two Sigma she was the Chief Technology Officer of Rent the Runway, a transformative brand that offers unprecedented access to designer fashion, disrupting the way millions of women get dressed. She is an open source contributor and project committee member for both Apache ZooKeeper and the Dropwizard web framework. Prior to working for Rent the Runway, Camille served as...
Proper Expectation Setting and Mindful Communication with Lara Hogan
August 05, 2018 17:12 - 42 minutes - 41.4 MBLara Callender Hogan is an engineering leader, coach, and consultant at Wherewithall. She is also the author of Designing for Performance (O’Reilly, 2014), Building a Device Lab (Five Simple Steps, 2015), and Demystifying Public Speaking (A Book Apart, 2016). Lara champions engineering management as a practice, having built and led engineering organizations as an Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter. In her world tour to advocate performance to designers and ...
From Intern to VP of Engineering with Mihai Fonoage
July 23, 2018 05:07 - 55 minutes - 79.1 MBMihai Fonoage is the Vice President of Engineering for Modernizing Medicine. In this role he leads a Team of Engineers that are working on building high-quality software for medical practices to increase efficiency and improve patient care. With over 13 years of experience in the technology world, his technical prowess has strongly contributed to Modernizing Medicine’s success. Mihai has a PhD in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University and was Modernizing Medicine’s first employee....
Managing Former Peers with Jen Dary
July 09, 2018 02:14 - 57 minutes - 55.5 MBJen Dary is the founder of Plucky, an organization that works with companies and individuals to create healthy dynamics at work. She is a leadership coach and speaker; she travels across the US teaching workshops, including her popular course, So Now You’re a Manager, which trains new managers across the country for the complex work of herding humans. Jen lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two young sons. On today's episode we discuss one of the tricky challenges of being a first t...
Slowing Down to Go Faster with Leonard Chung
June 11, 2018 04:01 - 46 minutes - 45.8 MBLeonard is the founder and CEO of Hello Chava, a company reimagining productivity tools for the solo professional. Over the past 25 years, Leonard has recognized emerging markets and launched multiple successful products with a particular focus in SaaS, Cloud Computing, and Collaboration through first gen products such as Hello Chava, Syncplicity, Windows PowerShell, and SETI@home. On today's episode we discuss scaling your leadership, being humble, racing cars and slowing down to go faste...
Should Managers Write Code with Leith Abdulla
May 13, 2018 22:08 - 45 minutes - 44.5 MBGiven a jar of peanut butter, a spoon and a challenging problem, I feel set up for success! I build and manage happy, healthy engineering teams that ship impactful products without sacrificing the user or developer experience. I like to focus on engineering culture (testing, performance + career growth), creating tools for engineering managers, internationalization, accessibility and improving the relationship between engineering, design, product managers and product support. I'm...
Nurturing an Inclusive Environment - Live Plato Event
May 06, 2018 22:52 - 39 minutes - 39.4 MBToday's podcast is a recording of a live panel that I moderated which focused on nurturing an inclusive environment at technology companies. It was part of a larger event put on by the tech mentoring company Plato. The fantastic guests that I had a chance to discuss this with were: Shivani Sharma, Senior Engineering Manager at Slack Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Reddit Nidhi Gupta, SVP Engineering at Hired I have interviewed both Shivani Sharma and Nick Caldwell on previous podc...
Diversity and Inclusion and Building High Performing Teams with Erica Stanley
April 29, 2018 23:40 - 48 minutes - 47 MBErica is an engineering manager for the integrations and data analytics teams at SalesLoft – where she’s helping grow the product engineering team for the 4th fastest growing software company in North America and #1 best place to work in Atlanta. During her 18 year career in tech, she’s worked with large companies, including Boeing, FOX Interactive Media and Turner Broadcasting, as well as early-stage startups--of which 2 were acquired, by MySpace and Oracle. Erica works passionately ...
How to Leave a Company as a Manager by Dennis Nerush
April 23, 2018 03:25 - 53 minutes - 51.9 MBDennis is the Head of Integration at HiredScore, a startup that helps large companies achieve their hiring and recruiting goals using deep system integrations and AI. Dennis is a former team and group leader at Sears Israel working on large scale social e-commerce platform and before that he was a team leader and a full stack developer at the Israeli Air Force. He is passionate about people growth and company culture. On today's episode we discuss the challenges, both logistical and emo...
Remote Teams and the Importance of Employee Mental Health with Katie Womersley
April 16, 2018 01:16 - 46 minutes - 45.3 MBKatie is a Director of Engineering at Buffer, a globally distributed team with no offices, and O’Reilly author. At Buffer, she leads the engineering team focusing on crafting productive, effective teams and delivering a world class software product. She previously worked as software engineer before moving into leadership. Her writing has appeared in The Next Web, Inc Magazine and Fast Company. Contact Info: website: http://katiewomersley.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/katie_womers ...
Hiring Best Practices and Diversity and Inclusion with Rachael Stedman
April 08, 2018 22:34 - 48 minutes - 46.9 MBRachael is an engineering manager for the infrastructure and backend teams at Lever, a collaborative hiring software product helping companies recruit and grow their teams. She joined the team in 2014 as a product engineer and was one of the first employees to kickoff internal discussions around diversity and inclusion. She transitioned into a management role over a year ago and is dedicated to growing engineering teams who have a strong combination of technical and soft skills. On today's...
How to Become a True Engineering Leader? (Live Plato Event)
March 26, 2018 05:24 - 29 minutes - 30.2 MBFour Engineering Managers from Facebook, Kabam, Clever, and Medium shared their tips on becoming a great Engineering Leader during the Plato event hosted on May 15, 2017 in San Francisco. Moderator: Christian McCarrick, CTO/VP of engineering at Telmate Jean Hsu, Engineering Management Consultant, former Engineering Manager at Medium Nikhil Pandit, Engineering Manager at Clever Inc. Richard Sun, Senior Director of Engineering at Kabam Yi Huang, Senior Engineering Manager at Facebook ...
Engineering Team Values with Jean-Denis Greze
March 19, 2018 03:30 - 59 minutes - 83.9 MBJean-Denis Greze is Head of Engineering at Plaid, the technology company giving developers access to the financial system and the tools to build many of the most influential applications and services of the modern financial era. Companies such as Venmo + Paypal, Coinbase, Robinhood, Acorns, Betterment, Clarity Money and hundreds more are built on Plaid - whose investors consist of Goldman Sachs, NEA, Citi Ventures, Spark Capital, American Express, and Google Ventures. Prior to joining Pl...
How to Change a Team's Culture with Ian Miell
March 12, 2018 04:41 - 53 minutes - 52.1 MBIan Miell is a software industry veteran who has written, maintained, managed and architected some of the world's busiest systems. He works in financial services now, and also speaks, writes, teaches, and consults on various subjects, the common theme being how change can be managed within complex organisations and the raw technology that can enable that. On today' s show Ian discusses the steps he took to change a team's culture that he inherited. Contact Information: https://...
Humanizing the Interviewing Process with Emily Leathers
March 05, 2018 04:48 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBIn this episode we discuss having hard conversations, overcoming fear to grow as a technology leader and humanizing the interviewing process. Emily Leathers helps leaders, teams, and communities achieve big goals that make a difference. She’s lucky enough to hold two dream jobs at the same time: as a Director of Engineering at a small startup called Brigade, where she builds web and native apps to help voters make our elected representatives actually work for us, and as an engineering lead...
Scaling Engineering Teams with Matias Woloski
February 26, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes - 51.4 MBMatias Woloski is the CTO and co-founder of Auth0, an identity platform that provides authentication, authorization and single-sign-on as a service. Auth0 was founded in 2013 and it has now 300 employees and it’s a fully distributed company. Since 2013, Auth0 has tripled and doubled its revenue every year, counting with more than two thousand customers and tens of millions in recurring revenue. Before Auth0, he co-founded a high-end consulting business that employed 120 consultants. Matias l...
Frameworks for Improving Engineering Leadership with Edmond Lau
February 19, 2018 04:00 - 45 minutes - 44.7 MBEdmond Lau is the author of the book, The Effective Engineer — now the de facto onboarding guide for many engineering teams. He's spent the past decade building and leading engineering teams at high-growth companies across Silicon Valley — including at Quip, Quora, Ooyala, and Google. As an engineering leadership coach, Edmond has worked directly with CTO's, directors, managers, and other emerging leaders to unlock what's possible for them and their teams. He's run workshops and seminars a...
Product and Engineering Team Alignment with Kimber Lockhart and Stuart Parmenter
February 11, 2018 19:18 - 50 minutes - 49.2 MBOn today's episode we discuss product & engineering team alignment, deadlines and urgency and ideas for helping under representated groups becoming technology leaders. Kimber Lockhart is Chief Technology Officer at One Medical Group – a rapidly growing model of primary care that integrates innovative design with leading technology to deliver higher quality service while lowering the total cost of care. Previously, Kimber co-founded Increo, a web-based service that allows users to share a...
Improving Interviewing with Andrew Marsh
February 05, 2018 04:32 - 43 minutes - 42.6 MBAndrew Marsh, CTO and co-founder of Interviewing.io talks about the poor state of interviewing process in today's tech companies, how to improve them and his company, Interviewing.io Andrew Marsh is co-founder and CTO of Interviewing.io A product designer and software engineer, he previously founded Fifth Column Games and has shipped titles with over 100 million users. Andrew ultimately left games in search of an industry where making a positive impact on the community was more aligned wit...
Why Group Meetings Can Be Time Wasters with Lawrence Krubner
January 28, 2018 22:02 - 42 minutes - 42.1 MBOn today's show Lawrence and I discuss why group meetings can be such time wasters, the importance of one-one-ones and lawrence's book. Over the last 18 years, Lawrence Krubner has been the technical co-founder of 3 different startups that he has led to success. He has also seen millions of dollars wasted on poorly run projects that he have had to turn around and save. Turning around a failing project can go smoothly, so long as everyone on the team can be completely honest about why a pr...
Building & Managing a Distributed Team with Juan Pablo Buritica
January 22, 2018 02:03 - 54 minutes - 52.6 MBJuan Pablo Buritica, VP of Engineering at splice.com, talks about building and managing a distributed team and the benefits of running developer communities. Juan Pablo Buritica is the VP of Engineering at splice.com where he leads a distributed engineering team throughout the US and Latin America that is building the creative hub for the modern musician. Juan Pablo has built effective software engineering organizations by emphasizing Open Source software values, technical excellence, tr...
Employee Onboarding with Benjamin Jackson
January 15, 2018 04:50 - 40 minutes - 40.3 MBBen Jackson, formally of VICE Media and The NYT, talks about the importance of employee onboarding and his new company For the Win. Ben Jackson has been designing and building consumer-facing products for 20 years. Before founding For the Win, Ben worked as Director of Mobile at VICE Media and iOS Lead at The New York Times. He’s written about design, technology, and psychology for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and WIRED, among others. Ben studied Computer Science and Fine Arts at the Un...
Finding Fulfillment at Work with Robert Slifka
January 08, 2018 05:53 - 53 minutes - 51.7 MBRobert Slifka, VP of Engineering at Sharethrough, talks about Calibrate, the conference for software engineering managers he organizes, the importance of finding good fit for both employees and companies and having a more fulfilling work experience.
The Importance of Self-Advocacy with Arquay Harris
December 18, 2017 02:24 - 43 minutes - 42.7 MBArquay Harris, Director of Engineering at Slack, and I discuss the importance of self advocacy and taking ownership of your career path.