Geeks Who Lead Podcast
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Performance Management at Indeed
Performance management has been a hot topic during this year of efficiency. In this Interview RC Johnson shares his experiences of building out, scaling and refining the performance management process at Indeed.
Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful
In a world where getting everyone into the same office five days a week is increasingly difficult, offsites are becoming an essential tool for aligning and connecting teams, departments and companies. But all too often, the planning falls to someone with
Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale
Over the last decade as Avant has scaled to an 800+ person company, town halls have been a consistent pillar of their interval communications strategy to support and reinforce culture.This week Paul Zhang shares his experience and approach to running both
Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth
Hiring junior developers is always a concern. Theyre easier to find and cost less than experienced engineers, but in addition to being less productive, they can easily become a drag on the performance of the senior devs you depend upon to ship mission cr
Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change
As engineering leaders, we have a responsibility to our organizations and their bottom line. At the same time, were leading humans, not automatons, and understanding and supporting the people in our org is both the right thing to do as a person and the m
Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned
Kit Colbert has taken an atypical route to becoming the CTO of a large, publicly traded corporation. He started at VMWare 20 years ago as an individual contributor and worked his way up to CTO leading a 2,300 person engineering org. In this fascinating in
Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction
Naturally, as CTOs, we often think about our job as to work with developers to ship software. But what does that mean in a world of frameworks, low code, no code, and even GenAI solutions? In this fascinating interview, I got to chat with Jeremiah Stone,
Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand
Over the last decade Josh Builder has led engineering at The Orchard (music), SoulCycle (fitness), Rent the Runway (fashion), and now Signify Health (healthcare). None of these were deep tech companies, but in each case, he found a core of engineering exc
Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs
In this week's interview with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures, we discussed the changes that LLMs might bring - to our engineering teams, our products, and our society. We looked at the potential impact on how we write softwa
Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation
Raji Subramanian brings a wide range of experience to the role of CTO at Opendoor (Nasdaq OPEN). She honed her technical chops culminating in a Principal Engineer role at Amazon and then ran engineering orgs at Yahoo and Amazon and cofounded Pro.com which