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September 15, 2020

How Speed Shaped Lambda School, With Bob Lauer

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with Bob Lauer, VP of Engineering Lambda School about the importance of speed at an early-stage startup, why deliberate communication is essential for remote teams, how we can be more productive by removing distractions.

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September 15, 2020

Hiring for Strengths (Not Weaknesses) with Charity Majors - Part 1

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with Charity Majors about why hiring for lack of weakness is a mistake. when pain and discomfort is okay in your professional life (and when it’s not), and why more folks in tech should quit their job.

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September 15, 2020

Hiring and Mentoring Coding Bootcamp Grads, With John Harden

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with John Harden about hiring and mentoring Coding Bootcamp Grads, finding mentorship early in your career, and the importance of “tech jams” when scoping a project.

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September 15, 2020

Hiring and Managing World-Class Remote Teams, with Andreas Klinger

By Luke Whitson

In this episode, we discuss how Andreas uses metrics for de-risking instead of politics and how he builds an onboarding process that makes it easy to scale remote engineering teams.

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September 15, 2020

Getting the Technical Hiring & Screening Process Right – Woven

By Luke Whitson

Improve your technical hiring process with insights from 6 engineering leaders to learn about their interview approach and technical screening.

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September 15, 2020

Explaining the “why” behind your features, with Mitch Stewart

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk about some of the management practices that have made Mitch successful at Guru. We dive into his transition from developer to manager, and the lessons he learned about building and motivating teams along the way.

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September 15, 2020

Empowering Our Teams With The Right Tools, With Amjad Masad

By Wes Winham

Amjad Masad, founder and engineer at Repl.it talks about how he’s overcome the nagging need for “perfection” in software shipping, what he believes makes a great manager, and where he sees the future of engineering work going in the years to come.

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September 15, 2020

Doing Better Work, With Max Yoder

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with Max Yoder about his book and sharing work before you’re ready, the importance of vulnerability to leadership, and nonviolent Communication.

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September 15, 2020

Communicating Feedback to Your Team, With Miles Sterrett

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with Miles Sterett about ways he reduces stress, reasons to hire out of a coding bootcamp, and communicating feedback effectively to your team.

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September 15, 2020

Building Companies That Are Both Good & Valuable, with David Odmark

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we discuss the difference between being a valuable company and being a good company, how quality systems can help us move faster, and whether or not there’s truly an answer for work/life balance.

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September 15, 2020

Being Thoughtful About The Algorithms In Our Lives, With Jake Miller

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we talk with Jake Miller. CTO and Co-Founder of MetaCX about why we should never say no to PTO, how algorithms make diversity worse, and how he focuses on building a balanced team instead of a senior team.

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September 15, 2020

Are All Women Engineers Like You?, with Rukmini Reddy

By Wes Winham

In this episode, we discuss how she’s used feedback to get better, how Rukmini Reddy attracts less traditional candidates to engineering roles on her team, and why the “10x engineer” trope is harmful to women engineers.

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