Scaling Software Teams is a weekly podcast to help software leaders navigate fast growth without losing the magic that made that growth possible. Every week, we bring you stories of trials, tribulations, and keys to success from high-growth engineering leaders all around the world. <br />We will learn together about how to scale a world-class engineering organization through hard-won stories about hiring developers, structuring teams, scaling collaboration, and managing managers.
Scaling Software Teams
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Podcast Overview
Scaling Software Teams is a weekly podcast to help software leaders navigate fast growth without losing the magic that made that growth possible. Every week, we bring you stories of trials, tribulations, and keys to success from high-growth engineering leaders all around the world. <br />We will learn together about how to scale a world-class engineering organization through hard-won stories about hiring developers, structuring teams, scaling collaboration, and managing managers.
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Recent Episodes
June 2, 2020
Achieving Gender Parity with Active Allyship with Denise Yu
Denise is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, a prolific speaker, as well as an author and illustrator.<br />In this episode, we dive deep into the role that gender plays in inclusion. What solutions can narrow the gap between men and women on engineering teams? Listen in as Wes and Denise break it down.<br />Wes’ Takeaways:<br /> Gendered language matters<br /> We have a responsibility as allies to speak out<br /> Documentation and the Double Rooney Rule can help us narrow gendered gaps<br /> Don’t correct people publicly on inclusion things
May 26, 2020
Being Black in Tech with Kevin Stewart
Kevin Stewart is an engineering leader who has worked across multiple company stages such as Fastly, Heptio, Nodesource, and Adobe. Today, he is the VP of Engineering at Harvest.<br />In this episode, we talk about the invisible burden that code-switching puts on underrepresented groups. How can we build D&I initiatives that actually lead to more diverse hiring and greater inclusion on our teams? Listen is as Kevin and Wes discuss.<br />Wes’ Takeaways:<br />Our metrics may undermine our D&I efforts.<br />Code-switching places an invisible burden on under-represented folks.<br />If we’re in a position of privilege, we need to champion underrepresented groups instead of tokenizing them.<br />Make sure people like public praise… Also, praise their work instead of their identity.
May 19, 2020
Firing and Getting Fired with Zach Holman
Zach Holman was employee number 9 at Github. He was one of their earliest engineers, and he saw the team expand to over 250 employees. Years later, he was fired from his role and has since gone on to start his own companies and advise other startups.<br />In this episode, we talk about a really hard subject… firing and getting fired. We also cover why your onboarding process may be to blame if you have high turnover and the next steps you should take after someone is let go.<br />Wes’ Takeaways:<br />Fire humanely: Give warning, offer PIP, and understand/think deeply about human impact<br />Don’t let this be the end of your relationship. “Once you’re out, you’re out” is lame.<br />Onboarding is highly correlated with firing… If you’re seeing high turnover, it’s likely an onboarding problem.<br />Your goal should be: How do we make a company that most of the people who work here are happy and successful?<br />If things end well, ex-employees can be referral sources and advocates
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