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Interview with Jossie Haines, Senior Director, Platform Engineering at Tile

June 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

In this interview & podcast, with Jossie Haines, Senior Director, Platform Engineering at Tile, we discuss diversity and inclusion, women in tech, going from IC to engineering manager, and time management.

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Trish Gray, Head of Business Growth at Pinterest

April 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

Trish Gray Portrait

In this interview (and podcast), with Trish Gray, Head of Business Growth at Pinterest, we discuss the 4D puzzle of management, Trish’s leadership goals, including a download to her leadership goals one-pager, plus techniques for coaching and mentoring your team. Trish has a huge passion for manager effectiveness, and we can all learn a lot from her.

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Lavanya Ramani, Software Development Manager at Amazon

February 10, 2020 2 Comments

In this interview (and podcast), with Lavanya Ramani, Software Development Manager at Amazon, we discuss “detached attachment,” careers (it’s not a race), hiring with LinkedIn Recruiter, how to avoid being distracted by your phone, and more.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: engineering manager, San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Rukmini Reddy, VP of Engineering at Abstract

January 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

In this interview (and podcast), with Rukmini Reddy, VP of Engineering at Abstract, we discuss motiving and aligning your team, working in a remote company, hiring, and tips for being organized.

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: San Francisco, VP, WomenInTech

Interview with Pei-Chin Wang, Senior Director of Product at Redfin

December 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

In this interview (and podcast), with Pei-Chin Wang, Senior Director of Product at Redfin, we discuss the relationship between engineering and product management, challenges in creating process as your company scales, some excellent interview questions, and a fun tip to disconnect over the weekend.

Filed Under: Interviews, Podcast Episode Tagged With: Product Management, Seattle, Senior Director, WomenInTech

Interview with Shilpi Sanchetee, Engineering Manager at Slack

October 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

Location: San Francisco 
Current Role: Senior Engineering Manager @ Slack 

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I was a software engineer for most of my career. At my first job in a small startup, I grew my team from 1 to 20 in 1.5 years in India and San Francisco. My manager at the time strongly believed in my leadership and put me in front of our main customers,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: engineering manager, San Francisco, WomenInTech

Interview with Alexandra Paredes, Head of Engineering at Code Climate

October 21, 2019 Leave a Comment

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I studied Computer Science in Caracas, Venezuela. Before finishing college, around 2009, I was working part-time building mobile applications for BlackBerry and Android using Java and PhoneGap (currently known as Apache Cordova). Building things that others found useful was thrilling. I treasured this experience because it served as a good introduction to understanding that “shipping” a product is more than coding. 

In the following years,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: head of engineering, Latinx, New York City, WomenInTech

Interview with Lena Reinhard, Director of Engineering CircleCI

September 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

Lean Reinhard

Location: Berlin
Current Role: Director of Engineering

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

After a career in finance, arts, and media, I got into tech. I started out in marketing and key account management in a small SaaS company, and at age 26 co-founded my first software company and became a CEO. As part of a longer-term consulting project with our company, I started managing distributed, fast-scaling engineering teams,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: Director, Germany, WomenInTech

Inspiring Women Leaders in Tech

September 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

Read these inspiring interviews from 23 different women leaders in tech sharing their experience to help other leaders improve. The interviews are from in 2018-19.

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Learn how they got into management. What are the biggest challenges they face? What is their advice for managers who are just starting out? And answers to many other questions.

Interview with Jossie Haines, Senior Director, Platform Engineering at Tile

June 1,

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: BestOfManagersClub, WomenInTech

Interview with Allison McMillan, Engineering Manager, GitHub

September 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Location: Washington, DC
Current Role: Engineering Manager, GitHub

What’s your background and how did you get into management?

I actually have a degree in political science! After college, I worked in nonprofit management for a while managing an organization working with college students. There were a lot of things that I loved about management. It’s great to watch people grow and learn and help them develop skills they’ll use for the rest of their lives.

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: engineering manager, Washington DC, WomenInTech

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