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Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Remote Teams and the Importance of Employee Mental Health with Katie Womersley Katie 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 […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Hiring Best Practices and Diversity and Inclusion with Rachael Stedman Rachael 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 […]
To my listeners: Due to work logistics, moderating a panel, Easter weekend and Spring Break, there will not be a new podcast published this week. Please stay tuned as the SimpleLeadership Podcast will return with a new episode next Sunday evening.
Thank you,
Christian
You’ve built websites that scaled to millions of users, indexed terabytes of data, and created automatic deployments to thousands of nodes – but now you’re struggling to manage a handful of people. You’re in meetings all day, deadlines are looming, a Board presentation is approaching, your top engineer just disappeared to “”find themselves”” and annual […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume How to Become a True Engineering Leader? (Live Plato Event) Four 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 […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Engineering Team Values with Jean-Denis Greze Jean-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 […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume How to Change a Team’s Culture with Ian Miell Ian 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, […]
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Humanizing the Interviewing Process with Emily Leathers 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 […]
Training is the manager’s job. Training is the highest leverage activity a manager can do to increase the output of an organization. If a manager spends 12 hours preparing training for 10 team members that increases their output by 1% on average, the result is 200 hours of increased output from the 10 employees (each works about 2000 hours a year). Don’t leave training to outsiders, do it yourself
Play / pause 1x 1.5x 2x 0:00 0:00 0:00 volume Scaling Engineering Teams with Matias Woloski Matias 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 […]