In the fourth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Claudiu Andrei, Site Tech Lead at Productboard’s San Francisco office, who’s in the process of building up two new teams to better serve our enterprise customers. We talk to Claudiu about what he considers when hiring staff and senior staff engineers, and what makes a candidate CV stand out. He walks us through the key steps of our interview process and discusses how to make an early impact when joining a company as a staff...

Our third episode of Season 2 was a special live recording from this year’s WebExpo conference in Prague, where we discussed what it takes to become a Staff+ Engineer. We sat down with a trio of experts in the field – Alice Rum, Staff Software Engineer at SentinelOne, Dmitry Belyaev, Principal Frontend Engineer at Booking.com, and Tomáš Růžička, Staff Engineer at Productboard – to get their insights and advice on how to advance in today’s fast-paced tech environment. The talk is geared toward...

In our second episode of Season 2, we chatted with Hussien Khayoon, Staff Software Developer at Shopify, about the undisputable importance and value of mentoring – regardless if you’re just starting out or already at the top of your game.  He discusses how his mentoring roles at Bootcamp, Superpeer, and ADPList gave him a different perspective on teaching people and leading teams. His participation in these groups, Hussien explains, is his way of giving back and reminding himself that he...

In our first episode of Season 2, we chatted with Ralph McTeggart, Principal Engineer at Productboard, about his decision to become a Tech Lead after wearing a manager hat for several years. He examines the benefits as well as the challenges he faced upon returning closer to the technical side, sharing how the skills he gained from serving in both positions are now helping him in his day-to-day at Productboard. Ralph discusses his approach to architecture and documentation, the importance...

In the seventh episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomes Ramona Shaw, his BetterManager leadership coach. Ramona works with both emerging and experienced technology leaders to help them achieve their fullest leadership potential.  In this inspiring episode, Joshua and Ramona explore the function and value of coaching, revealing actual examples of challenges they worked on together as catalysts for Joshua’s growth. Ramona, who spent years working in a corporate setting before...

In the sixth episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomed Timmy Ho, our first engineering hire in Vancouver. As the engineering manager, Timmy was brought aboard to establish and scale our first Canadian development center. Topics ranged from growth engineering, product-led growth, and collaboration across time zones to the importance of work-life balance, culture and value fitness, and how to build strong teams. The discussion provided an intriguing glimpse into what’s in store for...

For the fifth episode in our podcast series, Joshua welcomed a former colleague and old friend, Disha Al Baqui, Principal Engineering Manager at Hulu. Joshua and Disha met in 2014 when they worked as individual contributors for the same company. Today,...

For the fourth installment in our podcast series, Joshua welcomed Raz Shuty, Director of Engineering at Delivery Hero. This was an episode of firsts: the first non-productboard guest and the first episode recorded remotely. During a lively conversation,...

In the third instalment of our Engineering Leadership podcast, Joshua welcomes Daniel Hejl, our CTO and co-founder. During an interesting discussion around facilitating employee growth, Daniel highlights the importance of curiosity, clear goals, and regular, honest conversations in guiding employees towards that lighthouse in the distance.

Following productboard’s first Engineering Leadership Meetup, questions were collected and answered from the audience by Vojtech Vondra, productboard’s Director of Engineering. As Part 2 of Joshua’s conversation with Vojtech, they touch on topics including metrics to track an engineering organization, how to conduct uncomfortable conversations without breaking trust or relationships, and how empathy is a skill that can be learned. Plus, Joshua makes someone laugh for the first time in the...

Joshua talks with Vojtech Vondra, productboard’s Director of Engineering, about the company’s new initiative to expand the community, conversation, and knowledge sharing about engineering leadership through a series of events and content, including this podcast. They also discuss Vojtech’s path to becoming an engineering leader, first at Delivery Hero, and now at productboard. Finally, Joshua and Vojtech exchange some stories about experiences that inspired the philosophy of engineering...