Every conversation, A to Z
Structured interviews with engineering leaders — same questions, different answers — collected since 2017.
102 interviews
Akshaya Srivatsa
Director of Engineering at Bolt
17 min read
Alexandra Paredes
Head of Engineering at Code Climate
8 min read
Allison McMillan
Engineering Manager, GitHub
6 min read
Andrew Mairena
MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management (and formerly Application Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific)
7 min read
Anne Hjortshoj
Manager, UX Research and Strategy, Cisco Cloud Security
5 min read
Answering the Question of Engineering Prioritization
12 min read
Anthony Mazzarella
Director, Core Engineering at BAMTECH Media
7 min read
Anurag Maunder SVP of Engineering at Kindred.ai
5 min read
Ashok Ramaraj
Senior Engineering Manager at Sam’s Club (Walmart)
22 min read
Being a Great Coach with Anjuan Simmons Engineering Coach at Help Scout
41 min read
Being a Great Tech Executive — Interview with Aviv Ben-Yosef
Tech Exec Consultant & Author
33 min read
Bella Kazwell
Web Engineering Lead at Asana
5 min read
Benjamin Encz
Director of Engineering at PlanGrid
9 min read
Brent Baisley
VP of Engineering at Ticket Evolution
8 min read
Chaitanya Atreya
Director of Engineering at Teradata
7 min read
Chuck Groom
Director of Engineering at VTS
6 min read
Crucial Lessons on Managing Up: How To Work With Your Boss | Influence | Assertive Communication
20 min read
Daniel Dvorkin
Director of Engineering at Modern Tribe
5 min read
Dave Stachowiak
Host, Coaching for Leaders podcast
7 min read
Debjani Sarkar
Director of Engineering at Nuance Communications
5 min read
Denali Lumma
Director, Software Development at Box
12 min read
Effective Remote Work with James Stanier
Author and Director of Engineering at Shopify
17 min read
Elaine Montilla
Assistant Vice President and CIO for Information Technology at The Graduate Center, CUNY
8 min read
Elena Tatarchenko
Backend Engineering Manager at DataFox
5 min read
Engineering Leadership with Chintan Shah
VP Engineering at Collective & ex-Uber
24 min read
Engineering Leadership with Guillermo Manzo
Senior Manager Expedia & US Marine
23 min read
Engineering Management Lessons — Learn to be a great Engineering Leader with Anand Safi
29 min read
Erin Kidwell
Build, CI & DevInsights Manager at Netflix
6 min read
Eugene Bochkarev
VP of Engineering at Xero
24 min read
Federico Soria
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
14 min read
Gady Pitaru
Chief Technology Officer for Badger Maps
9 min read
Gergely Németh
Engineering Manager at Uber
5 min read
Get and Pass the Engineering Leadership Interview with Flo Monier Leadership Recruiter at Airbnb
16 min read
Get and Pass the Engineering Leadership Interview with Kevin Doiron Executive Recruiter
18 min read
Get and Pass the Engineering Leadership Interview with Kyle Cooper Leadership Recruiter at Meta
16 min read
Hampton Catlin
Sr Director of Engineering, Rent the Runway
5 min read
Himanshu Gahlot
Director of Engineering, Lambda School (ex-Amazon)
20 min read
How I Went from Engineer to Manager Overnight
Lessons Learned
26 min read
How Leaders Should Think About Artificial Intelligence and What They Should Do
16 min read
How to Advocate for your Team: Everything You Need to Know with Mallika Rao
27 min read
How to be an Introverted Leader. Tips for Women
First and Second Generation Managers
22 min read
How to be BELIEVABLE & DECISIVE: Key qualities of effective leadership
23 min read
How to Communicate and Motivate Engineers with Charles Weindorf
Senior Vice President Of Technology at Avertra Corp
25 min read
How to Run Successful Daily Scrum Meetings
20 min read
I asked 21 engineering leaders to recommend just 1 book to managers and here is what they said…
7 min read
Improve Your Presentations with Neil Thompson from Teach the Geek to Speak
19 min read
Isabel Nyo
Engineering Manager, Technologist, Writer, Speaker, Mother
5 min read
Jean Hsu
VP of Engineering at Range
31 min read
Jeba Singh Emmanuel
Engineering Manager at Linkedin
5 min read
Jeremy Henrickson
VP Product and Engineering @ Rippling
18 min read
Jerry Li
Senior Director at Groupon
9 min read
John Van Heteren the Director of Treatment Delivery Applied Research at Varian Medical Systems
8 min read
Jorge Salas
Application Development Manager at Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
16 min read
Jossie Haines
Senior Director, Platform Engineering at Tile
15 min read
Juan Pablo Buritica Vice President of Engineering at Splice
20 min read
Kan Yilmaz
Co-Founder at Haystack, on Metrics for Engineering Teams
12 min read
Kate Wardin
Senior Engineering Manager at Target
5 min read
Kimber Lockhart
CTO at One Medical
8 min read
Lavanya Ramani
Software Development Manager at Amazon
21 min read
Leadership Lessons — Madhu Vorha Director of Engineering
22 min read
Leadership Lessons — Swapna Savant Director of Engineering
20 min read
Lei Yang
VP of Engineering at Quora
7 min read
Lena Reinhard
Director of Engineering CircleCI
8 min read
Libor Michalek
President, Technology at Affirm, Inc.
16 min read
Lior Gavish Senior Vice President at Barracuda Networks
18 min read
Mallika Rao
Software Engineering Manager at Twitter
26 min read
Margaret Schmitt
Senior Director of SBU Solutions Enablement at ANSYS
6 min read
Matt Newkirk
Engineering Manager at Etsy
5 min read
Mickey Mantle
Co-author: Managing the Unmanageable and Founder/CEO Wanderful interactive storybooks
8 min read
Mike Hansen
Head of Product Development and Engineering for Sonatype
7 min read
Nat Fast
VP Software Development at Viscira
10 min read
Natasha Vinnik
Senior Engineering Manager at Google
10 min read
Oliver Plattner
VP of Engineering at Codecademy
5 min read
Patrick Joyce
Director of Engineering at Stitch Fix
6 min read
Pei-Chin Wang
Senior Director of Product at Redfin
13 min read
People and Product Focused Engineering Leadership with Happy Wang
34 min read
Poorani Jeyasekar
Delivery Lead for Celerity Consulting
11 min read
Rama Kulasekaran
Sr. Director of Engineering at Optum (UnitedHealth Group)
22 min read
Randy Raw
VP of Information Security at Veterans United Home Loans
23 min read
Ravi Bhim
CEO & Founder of BeautifulCode
13 min read
Raylene Yung
Head of Payments at Stripe
5 min read
Raymond Lai Co-Founder
CTO of Mitterra Ecommerce Solutions and Author of This is Professional Services
6 min read
Rich Archbold
Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom
5 min read
Robby Russell
VP Engineering, Partner at Planet Argon, LLC
7 min read
Ron Lichty
Consultant, Interim VP Engineering and Author
12 min read
Rukmini Reddy
VP of Engineering at Abstract
13 min read
Saminda Wijegunawardena
VP, Engineering @ Box
16 min read
Sanjay Zope
Director of Software Engineering, NationalMI
5 min read
Shilpi Sanchetee
Engineering Manager at Slack
5 min read
Shruti Venkatesh
Senior Engineering Manager at VTS
20 min read
Sol Rosenbaum
Director, Green & Energy Services at GRS Group
6 min read
SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW MANAGERS: A Guide for Millennials
20 min read
Swaroop C H
Engineering Manager at Helpshift
5 min read
Tanaka Mutakwa
VP of Engineering at Names & Faces
23 min read
Tips for Success as an Engineering Manager
José R. Arzuaga — Staff Engineering Manager, GitHub
27 min read
Trish Gray
Head of Business Growth at Pinterest
27 min read
Varsha Dudani
Engineering Manager at DoorDash
5 min read
Vishal Saxena
VP Global SaaS Operations at Aktana
14 min read
What is a Fractional CTO with Morgan Craft
32 min read
Xing Chen
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Thumbtack
7 min read
Yagiz Erkan
VP of Technology at Motive Retail
6 min read
Yannis Pavlidis
Senior Director of Data Science at Walmart eCommerce
20 min read