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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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Apr 28, 2023 • 21min
Building Trust and Safety in Remote Teams at Shopify
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jesse McGinnis of Shopify about building trust and safety in remote teams and developing yourself as a leader.
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Apr 24, 2023 • 32min
Work-life Integration and the Modern Workplace
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Peter Miscovich co-author of the book The Workplace You Need Now: Shaping Spaces for the Future of Work about creating human-centric working environments where work-life integration of mental wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing matter.
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Apr 7, 2023 • 24min
Moving from Technical Contributor to People Leader with Lena Reinhard
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Lena Reinhard about new skills that are needed when moving from an individual contributor role to a people leader, communicating outside of engineering and the layoffs in tech.
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Mar 31, 2023 • 56min
Culture & Methods Trends in 2023
In this podcast the whole Culture & Methods editorial team plus Rebecca Parsons, CTO of Thoughtworks, explore the trends they see happening in the technology industry in 2023
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Mar 20, 2023 • 31min
Becoming a Great Engineering Manager and Balancing Synchronous - Asynchronous Work
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify and Track Host at QCon San Francisco for the Remote and Hybrid Work: What’s Next track, about what makes a great engineering manager, nurturing culture with 14000 remote workers and deliberately balancing synchronous and asynchronous work.
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Mar 10, 2023 • 21min
How to Become an Effective Communicator as an Engineer
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Neil Thompson of teachthegeek.com about how to build great communication skills as a technologist.
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Mar 6, 2023 • 27min
Establishing SRE Foundations with Vladyslav Ukis
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vladyslav Ukis about his new book, Establishing SRE Foundations.
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Feb 26, 2023 • 20min
Internships Enabling Effective Collaboration Between Universities and Companies
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Lukáš Hermann about collaboration with universities, internship programs and growing leadership skills.
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Feb 17, 2023 • 23min
Being Opiniated About the Engineering Culture you want to Build
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Viraj Mody about creating great developer experience through being opiniated and deliberate about the culture you want to build.
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Feb 6, 2023 • 29min
Hiring and Retaining Great People in the New World of Working
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sarah Hawley of Growmotely about employing and retaining people in the remote and hybrid working world.
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