I'm Slowly Recruiting This Person

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Oli, Ike and jason discuss the importance of recruiting. Oli: "I think about this as interactions o people in the world in general" In a very early stage company, againa like hiring very slowly, is that it's not maybe necessary that i spend, like, you no, spentaly less time,. an still spending a lot of time on it." Jason: "You don't look at a person as a static entity... You watch them grow into a person".

Erik Bernhardsson joins us on the podcast to chat about building engineering teams and the delicate balance between innovation and productivity as organizations grow.

Erik has been scaling engineering teams for years. In its early days, he managed the analytics and machine learning teams at Spotify. Next, he grew Better's engineering team from 0 to 300, where he was CTO until the beginning of 2021. Erik is now working on a yet-to-be-named project that will bring exciting new tools to data teams.

In this episode, we also shared our views on team mentalities, skunkworks projects, and more as we tried to answer the question: "what is success in engineering?"

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Developing Leadership is a podcast presented by Athenian. We are introducing the world of engineering to metrics and data that improve processes and help teams. If you want to learn more about data-enabled engineering, go to athenian.co