I've Never Heard of the Garbage Collector Reference in Engineering Leadership

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Sam and Jason talk about what it is that they do on a weakly basis to really make sure that you have that kind of calm mind coming into difficult conversations or stressful situations. Sam: "You should be doing the difficult, the tough, to do the nasty parts of job" jason: "I think if we weren't allowed to send, and i might have to scrub the last few episodes already, list the hurry, the long this pra the longest days as ever heard me speak"

On this episode of Developing Leadership, Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale and previously VP of Engineering at GitHub, joins us to talk about building high-performance teams. We chatted about leading with influence, advocating for your team, creating delightful hiring experiences, knowing when to fire people and how to keep your software engineers close to your end-users to build great products.

One of the biggest takeaways from this episode is that you have to start with yourself if you want to build a high-performance team. So if you're looking for pointers on how to be a better leader for your team and for your company, this episode is for you!

Learn more about some of the topics discussed on this episode at go.developingleadership.co/ep9

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