OfferZen Podcast
Technology Podcasts
Be part of the conversation, and listen as host, Jomiro Eming, chats to some of the most successful thought-leaders in tech to discover how they hack their careers, and how they approach difficult tech problems. 🦄
The OfferZen Podcast unpacks the tips and tricks from the best in tech. Learn how other software makers think about their growth, how they lead their own tech teams, awesome projects they’ve worked on, and how they build out their careers.
We also learn how big tech companies are hiring tech talent, what the future of tech looks like, how remote-first tech teams are built and how they function, and how tech leaders approach hard-to-solve team-building challenges.
📚 If you enjoy the podcast, make sure to check out our blog for more epic content like this! You can find it here: https://bit.ly/2BuyXcQ
🚀 And, if you want to unlock your potential of your tech career, and join a community of +90 000 other software makers, find us here: https://bit.ly/2ZtRUEx
Location:
South Africa
Genres:
Technology Podcasts
Description:
Be part of the conversation, and listen as host, Jomiro Eming, chats to some of the most successful thought-leaders in tech to discover how they hack their careers, and how they approach difficult tech problems. 🦄 The OfferZen Podcast unpacks the tips and tricks from the best in tech. Learn how other software makers think about their growth, how they lead their own tech teams, awesome projects they’ve worked on, and how they build out their careers. We also learn how big tech companies are hiring tech talent, what the future of tech looks like, how remote-first tech teams are built and how they function, and how tech leaders approach hard-to-solve team-building challenges. 📚 If you enjoy the podcast, make sure to check out our blog for more epic content like this! You can find it here: https://bit.ly/2BuyXcQ 🚀 And, if you want to unlock your potential of your tech career, and join a community of +90 000 other software makers, find us here: https://bit.ly/2ZtRUEx
Twitter:
@offerzen
Language:
English
Contact:
0769020120
Website:
https://offerzen.com/blog
Email:
jomiro@offerzen.com
Episodes
#79 Julian Springer, Singular Systems: A Structured Approach to Prioritise Your Developer’s Career Growth
2/25/2021
Many developers say that growth opportunities are one of the most important things for them when it comes to staying in a job. However, for a tech lead figuring out how to cater for everyone’s career goals can be hard. That’s why Julian Springer, Technical and Career Manager at Singular Systems, has set up ‘contribution sessions’ with his developers every month to track progress and solve any niggles before they become bigger problems. Here’s how he does this.
Watch the video, and read the...
Duration:00:37:50
#77 Ashley Sanders, Signific: How Remote Leaders Can Lead Their Tech Teams Asynchronously
2/23/2021
Being a remote leader is hard enough, but being a remote leader in a different time zone is even harder. Ashley Sanders is Signific’s Director of Tech, and sits roughly eight hours behind his tech team, in another country. In this conversation, he shares the operating system he’s developed for himself, and his team, to ensure that he is not a blocker to his team’s productivity, that his team can still ask him for support, and that he can still provide his team with what they need to...
Duration:00:32:33
#76 Mike Scott, NONA: Strategies for Remote Tech Leadership That Build Connection, Support, and Visibility
2/23/2021
As tech teams around the world embrace remote work to varying degrees, tech leaders need to adapt their leadership to suit the new environment. Understanding what that means in practice, however, is hard. Mike Scott, CEO and co-founder at NONA, learned an important lesson in his time as a remote leader, namely that: Remote leadership is not the same as remote work, and strategies for the latter won’t necessarily work for the former. Being a remote leader requires a new approach, and in this...
Duration:00:55:08
#75 Richard Bailey, Entersekt: How Entersekt Designed Their Team Around Their Product Architecture
2/19/2021
When communication structures and organisation design happen by accident — ie. they are not set up in parallel to each other — it tends to result in greater cognitive loads on developers, slower development speeds, and suboptimal workflows and productivity. This is why Richard Bailey, Executive VP of Engineering at Entersekt, used intentional organisation design to construct a new team structure around Entersekt’s product architecture so that his teams’ communication could mirror their...
Duration:00:44:39
#75 Maryn Conen, Cardano: 3 Questions to Ask Your Team Before Overhauling Your Programming Language
2/17/2021
Overhauling a development team's existing architecture can be a massive undertaking for any CTO. Maryn Conen, CTO at Cardano, led their move from C# to Python and said that — for him — it was critical to make sure that the people in his team would benefit from the change as much as the business would. In this article, he shows how he did that by asking his team three specific questions, in order to understand whether the change was worth it or not.
Watch the video, and read the blog post...
Duration:01:01:39
#74 Chiedza Muguti, Penta: How to Build a Succession Plan and Make Your Team More Autonomous
2/4/2021
Being a leader can make it hard to take time off, and feel confident that your team will continue to thrive without you there. Chiedza Muguti, Head of Product at Penta, experienced this first hand when she had to take 10 weeks of medical leave, and saw how her team's systems failed when she wasn't around. Since then, she has set up a competency framework and a succession — or handover — plan that she uses to help her team succeed with or without her there. Here, she shares what this...
Duration:00:52:18
#73 Mark Deubel, Elastic: How to Use Collaboration to Engage With Devs More Meaningfully
2/3/2021
Many technical recruiters acknowledge that hiring developers is particularly hard. They often don’t have a background in tech, and traditional approaches to recruiting often don't work because of how a developer thinks and what they're looking for in their careers. That's why Mark Deubel, Senior Tech Recruiter at Elastic, has found it useful to collaborate with his hiring manager and their team to learn more about the candidates that he's reaching out to. Here's how he approaches...
Duration:00:50:14
#72 Ed and David O'Reilly, NONA: 3 Tips for Finding ‘Unicorns’ by Making Technical Interviews More Interactive
1/27/2021
Technical interviews are part of most companies' hiring process, and are one of the most important stages. But Ed O’Reilly and David O’Reilly, COO/Co-founder and CTO at NONA respectively, have found that they’re often limited in focus, and treated as a screening procedure more so than an engagement opportunity. In their experience, this reduces their efficacy and negatively impacts candidate experience. Here are three ways they make their tech interviews more interactive, get a better...
Duration:00:39:09
[Special episode!] #71 Attracting Remote Talent: Why Telling Your Company Story Matters
1/20/2021
While your talent pool for high quality developers increases when you open up your hiring remotely, so does the competition. Now, companies across the world — from small startups, to ‘big tech’ — are trying to attract the same developers. In this audio documentary, we get advice from the best in tech hiring at Codility, Recruitee, and co., and unpack what companies getting remote hiring right are doing. Here is what it takes to hire top tech talent in a remote world.
To read OfferZen’s full...
Duration:00:18:35
#70 Sadhana Gopal, Independer: 5 Ways to Measure the Value of Your Tech Transformation
1/11/2021
Undergoing a tech transformation is a big undertaking for any tech team. Sadhana Gopal, Engineering Manager at Independer, has learned that being able to measure the value of the transformation is just as important as the technical roadmap you create for actually carrying out the transformation. She unpacks how she measures the value of a tech transformation while it’s happening, so that her team can stay agile and adapt to changes as they arise.
Watch the video and read the blog post here!...
Duration:00:55:32
#69 Daphne Cheung, Disney: Present Data like a Pro, Communicate Better with Your Team
12/9/2020
Every team has a mix of roles, and a range of technical to more non-technical people. This can make it challenging for software developers and data scientists to communicate effectively with each other, as well as with other people in their broader team, in a way that they understand. Daphne Cheung, Data Scientist at Disney, has used her background in business to hack communication in a way that lets her communicate better with anyone. This is her advice to help leaders help their teams do...
Duration:00:54:16
#68 Arjen de Ruiter, Sendcloud: 2 Approaches for Sparking Motivation in Your Dev Team
12/2/2020
If teams aren't given the right environment to thrive, they will be unmotivated and won't perform to their best. Arjen de Ruiter, VP of Engineering at Sendcloud, has found ways to let his team be creative and vulnerable, which has made them more motivated to excel. In this conversation, Arjen shares how he helps motivate his team, as well as the positive impact this has for his business.
Watch the video, and read the blog post here!...
Duration:00:54:31
#67 Antoine van der Lee, WeTransfer: Tech Leadership, Focus, Side Projects, and Winning at iOS Dev
11/26/2020
Leading a team and managing one’s focus effectively can be a tricky balance to strike. Not to mention keeping up a day job, working on side projects, building up a professional profile, and still finding new ways to stay relevant as a developer.
That’s why we spoke to Antoine van der Lee, Team Lead and iOS Dev at WeTransfer, about how he approaches delegating tasks, managing his time, and winning at team leadership. We also touched on how he manages his career, personal brand and avoids...
Duration:00:56:16
#67 Antoine van der Lee, WeTransfer: Tech Leadership, Focus, Side Projects, and Winning at iOS Dev
11/25/2020
Leading a team and managing one’s focus effectively can be a tricky balance to strike. Not to mention keeping up a day job, working on side projects, building up a professional profile, and still finding new ways to stay relevant as a developer.
That’s why we spoke to Antoine van der Lee, Team Lead and iOS Dev at WeTransfer, about how he approaches delegating tasks, managing his time, and winning at team leadership. We also touched on how he manages his career, personal brand and avoids...
Duration:00:56:19
#66 Peter Ferreira, Dariel: How Authenticity Can Help You Win in Remote Recruitment
11/19/2020
Being an attractive company for tech talent is ever more important in a remote world where candidates can work for any tech company from anywhere in the world. Peter Ferreira, Head of Recruitment at Dariel, has found that focusing on authenticity is the key to attracting great talent in our new online world. He shares some of the ways he has been doing this, and why it's proved more effective than just scrubbing job boards.
Watch the video, or read the blog post here!...
Duration:00:53:59
#65 Recruitee: 3 Tips to Get your Remote Candidate Experience Right
11/18/2020
Recruitee’s 2020 State of Remote Hiring report shows clearly that companies that are successful at remote hiring all get one thing right: Candidate experience. Here's why that's so important in a remote world, and some suggestions for improving candidate experience in your hiring process.
Watch the video, or read the blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3pVAwVM)
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🤔 Curious to know how developers feel about working from home and the...
Duration:01:04:12
#64 Oliver Short, SEEKR: Remote Tech Hiring, Aligning Motivators and Expectations to Improve Hiring Success
11/5/2020
Hiring developers remotely means that location is no longer a constraint for who talent recruiters can reach out to. However, ‘remote’ means different things for different people, and this makes a recruiter’s job really hard, and can negatively impact the success of a remote hire. Oliver Short, Founder and Tech Recruiter at SEEKR, has learned that by aligning a developer’s and a company’s motivators at the start of his process, and clearly defining what each person means by remote work, he’s...
Duration:01:02:23
#63 Panel discussion, Codility x OfferZen: 5 Things Tech Companies Winning at Remote Work are Getting Right
10/29/2020
Although everyone has had a taste of remote work, we’re still learning about the challenges that come with it, and how to get it right. Codility and OfferZen collectively surveyed over 2300 engineers globally on how they feel about remote work and recently released reports on their findings.
In this discussion, Rachel Whitehead, VP of Marketing at Codility, and Stephen van der Heijden, VP of Growth at OfferZen, unpack some of the insights from the reports, and discuss what they’ve seen it...
Duration:01:05:15
Special Episode: Celebrating One Year “On Air” with Netflix, Google, and Co. 🥳
10/21/2020
We’re constantly working to bring you useful insights to help you thrive in the tech industry – and what better way to do that than hear it straight from the experts themselves! We started the OfferZen Podcast a year ago to get behind-the-scenes insights, advice, and tips from the best in tech hiring and tech leadership. Here are some of the highlights.
Read the highlights blog post here! (https://bit.ly/3kgwwvS)
Do you know a thought-leader in tech? Or do you yourself want to feature in a...
Duration:00:06:40
#62 Jan Ambroziewicz, Codility: Using Async- and Synchronous Communication to Improve Remote Meetings
10/21/2020
Many remote teams are likely familiar with the challenge of excessively long (or drawn out) remote meetings that feel disengaging. Jan Ambroziewicz, Senior Product Manager at Codility, realised that his team needed to be more deliberate about how they run remote meetings, and so decided to reevaluate their meeting structure. By splitting meetings into two parts — one asynchronous, and one synchronous — his team could come more prepared to meetings, and use that time for engaging, and...
Duration:01:15:54