How to Build High Performing Engineering Teams ๐Ÿ—๏ธ โ€” with Maria Gutierrez (Personio, Twitter)
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Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering at Personio, and ex VP of Engineering and Operations at Twitter. With Maria we talked about how to build healthy and impactful engineering orgs as they scale. We touched on everything from processes to remote work, development cycle, hiring, structuring teams and more. (00:00) Introduction (02:12) Maria's career journey (05:18) How hyper-growth breaks engineering teams, and how to prevent it (09:32) How to balance speed and quality (13:40) What a high performing team looks like (15:46) How to scale without adding friction (19:22) Personio's engineering team and growth (21:02) Remote work: impact, relationships, and challenges (32:54) How remote work impacts different roles (38:09) Transition from engineer to manager (45:08) How to use engineering productivity metrics (51:05) The use of AI in Maria's teams (54:50) The evolution of engineering managers (58:11) Career advice for engineers โ€” You can also find this at: ๐Ÿ“ฌ โ โ Newsletterโ โ  ๐Ÿ“บ โ โ Youtubeโ โ  ๐Ÿ“ฑ โ โ Appleโ 
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