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

Staff+ ambitions: Top tips for landing your IC leadership job (with Alice Rum, Dmitry Belyaev and Tomáš Růžička)

May 18th, 2023 43m 31s

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

Mentor me this: a master's guide to mentoring for staff+ engineers (with Hussien Khayoon)

Apr 6th, 2023 44m 48s

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 di

From manager of managers to principal engineer (with Ralph McTeggart)

Feb 22nd, 2023 51m 56s

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

Self-reflection: How to become a confident, high-performing leader (with Ramona Shaw)

Jan 3rd, 2022 1h 24m

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 i

Building a development center from the ground up (with Timmy Ho)

Aug 6th, 2021 1h 1m

In the sixth episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomed Timmy Ho, our first engineering hire in North America. An engineering manager in our Vancouver office, Timmy reflected on bootstrapping our new Canadian development center. The discuss

Becoming the leaders we wished we’d had (with Disha Al Baqui)

Dec 15th, 2020 1h 18m

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

Leading during a crisis: Chaos engineering for collaboration (with Raz Shuty)

Jul 7th, 2020 1h 20m

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 conv

Employee growth: Conversations on the way to the lighthouse (with Daniel Hejl)

Apr 7th, 2020 42m 23s

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

Community Q&A #1: Empathy is a skill that can be learned (with Vojtech Vondra)

Jan 14th, 2020 31m 47s

What metrics do you use to track team performance? What challenges are there when scaling teams? And how do you maintain healthy relationships at work while having the difficult conversations that help people grow? In part 2 of the conversation

It’s not a promotion, it’s a career change (with Vojtech Vondra)

Jan 13th, 2020 29m 9s

Kicking off the podcast series, host Joshua Samberg is joined by our very own Director of Engineering, Vojtech Vondra. During a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss productboard’s efforts to expand the conversation around engineering leaders

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