Welcome to the SCALER Pod series! In this first episode, we have Arnav Gupta (Product & Strategy, SCALER) in conversation with Jitendra Agrawal, Global CTO, CARS24. They discuss about engineering management, scaling up of engineering teams and importance of mobile development.
About Jitendra Agrawal Jitendra is currently the Global CTO of CARS24 expanding the tech team that works on CARS24's international products. He has spent a significant about of time in engineering leadership roles previously too, including being CTO of SpringBoard and LendingKart as well has being VP of Engineering at HotStar.
Timelines
00:00 Teaser
01:30 Introduction
02:00 Day in the life of a CTO
05:30 Tech Team Structure of different sized companies
08:00 Working on B2B vs B2C tech
11:00 Tech Teams communicating with Business/Products
12:30 Jiten's career story so far
17:00 Key ingredients to hire and retain a great tech team
23:00 Career choices for mid-senior engineers
28:00 Being 'language-specific' in hiring
35:00 Importance of Mobile Engineering
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