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   E71 · 18 Jan 2023 · 45 min

   A soul-crushing job search

   Heather Reid shares her difficult job search journey and how she overcame self-doubt and kept trying until she found the perfect job. Although Heather had been active in the testing community for over a decade, when she was searching for her newest role, she heard ‌she wasn’t a tester and that she had been gone too long gone. We also talk about: - bad interview experiences - why she was seen as "too long gone" in testing - how to handle job rejections - how she proved everyone that rejected her during job interviews wrong - advice for job seekers and people interviewing in tech.

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   E70 · 4 Jan 2023 · 58 min

   Entrepreneurship, Career Growth and Testing: Top 5 Episodes of 2022

   Let's revisit the top 5 interviews in 2022, which gives us all the opportunity to listen to some episodes you might have already forgotten or missed. Episode Chapters: 0:00 Intro 01:21 Making money with open source 09:08 Profitable small bets 24:15 Career growth and mindset 35:12 Writing tests that find bugs 45:15 Drawbacks of being an engineering manager 55:50 Wrap-up and support the podcast 57:25 Closing song

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   E69 · 20 Dec 2022 · 53 min

   Coding practices at MAANG companies versus startups

   Michael Lynch shares what he learned by writing code at Microsoft and Google, and how that differs from the software practices that he embraces in his own software company. We also talk about: - what is the root cause when code reviews are evil - how to establish a great code review practice - software engineering practices at Google and Microsoft, - how to balance code quality, time to market, and paying back technical debt - writing software as a bootstrapped business - his lessons learned building tiny pilot, including scaling customer support, software testing.

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   E68 · 7 Dec 2022 · 54 min

   Can Engineering metrics be ethical?

   Lauren Peate shares how engineering metrics can be ethical with Multitudes. We also talk about: - what are ethical developer metrics? - how to best measure developer productivity? - ensuring engineering metrics can not be misused - do developer metrics lead to gaming the system? - how can DORA metrics be used to improve team performance?

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   E67 · 16 Nov 2022 · 44 min

   Collaborative debugging with Fiberplane

   Micha Hernandez van Leuffen shares how and why he built Fiberplane, a platform for collaborative debugging notebooks. We also talk about: - the idea behind collaborative debugging notebooks, - how Fiberplane can help resolve incidents faster and blamelessly, - how Fiberplane works together with other debugging, monitoring, and observability tools, and - Micha's entrepreneurial journey building two startups in the developer productivity space.​

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   E65 · 24 Aug 2022 · 45 min

   Making security easier for developers

   In this episode, I talk to Harshit Chitalia about how we can make security easier for developers. Harshit is the co-founder and CTO of Tromzo, a start-up dedicated to reducing the friction between developers and security. Before that Harshit spent eight years as Director of Engineering at Juniper Networks. We talk about: - why software security is sometimes difficult for developers - how static analysis tools can help developers with security - why Harshit founded Tromzo and - how this start-up journey is going.

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   E64 · 28 Jul 2022 · 39 min

   Being an engineering manager wasn't for me

   In this episode, I talk to Nicolas Dular, a senior full-stack engineer at GitLab, about his experience of becoming an engineering manager. We talk about: - how he became an engineering manager - what he liked about this role - what he did not like about being an engineering manager - and why he decided to move back to an individual contributor role.

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   E63 · 13 Jul 2022 · 50 min

   Mentoring as an engineering manager

   From workplace dynamics to code reviews, misunderstandings can arise for a variety of reasons. People have different interpretations of things or of what is said, different assumptions of others' motives, and simply miss out on the information they need to understand something. This can lead to conflict building up over time. But what if there’s a way that people could come to a common understanding through common knowledge and similar wavelength? Jess Rose joins me in today’s episode to share her insights on creating better workplace experiences and how managers can balance contractual…

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   E62 · 29 Jun 2022 · 30 min

   What hinders your career as a developer? – Mindset.

   For engineers feeling stuck and unfulfilled, my guest Dagna Bieda has valuable advice. Dagna is a software engineer turned career coach who has mentored 50+ clients, some of whom worked at big brand names (such as LinkedIn, Amazon, Google, Disney), as well as much smaller businesses. Whether it’s for promotion, salary increase, landing a new job, or becoming a CTO, she’s committed to helping her clients reach their full potential. In this episode, Dagna talks about hitting a wall in her engineering career and eventually finding a passion for coaching. She also discusses her perspective on…

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    E61 · 15 Jun 2022 · 42 min

    Running a profitable training business for Ruby developers

    In the software world, there are a lot of opportunities. You just have to have the right mindset, preparations, and systems. In this episode, my guest Avdi Grimm shares how he found his independence by running a training and consulting business for over ten years. He reiterates the importance of time efficiency, task delegation, and why you should remove yourself as a bottleneck from your business. He also goes in-depth about the work he does on Graceful.Dev and how he is utilizing WordPress for the website. Avdi is a consulting pair-programmer, the author of several popular Ruby programming…