If you're a software engineer right now, the questions you're asking about your career probably feel existential. We've been spending a lot of time on this show preparing for the changing industry—what skills matter, what mindset works—and one answer keeps surfacing: your ability to update your mental models is itself the critical skill. In today's episode, ... Show More
May 24
Practice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry
If you're a software engineer right now, you likely feel like your world is changing overnight. We are writing half or less the amount of code that we wrote even a year ago, which represents a seismic, groundbreaking shift in our industry. For many of us, this career has always b ... Show More
19m 59s
May 14
Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave
If you've heard that your job in the agentic coding era is to "become a manager of agents," you may have noticed something doesn't quite fit. Most of us never trained to be managers, and frankly, that's not the role most engineers want. In today's episode, I unpack what that shif ... Show More
28m 38s
Jul 2023
Ep. 24: Building a Network, and Mastering the "Soft Skills" That Equal Professional Success with Sol Rosenbaum
I am happy to be joined by the engineering mentor, Sol Rosenbaum. Sol brings home the bacon via his commercial real estate engineering firm. We get that towards the end of the episode, but the bulk of what we'll talk about is his passion project, mentoring young engineers.Entry l ... Show More
40m 44s
Feb 2024
How to Build a Technical Strategy That Solves Business Problems | CircleCI CTO, Rob Zuber
<p>It doesn’t matter if you have an innovative technical strategy if you’re not solving problems the business cares about… <br/><br/>This week, host Conor Bronsdon sits down with Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI. They delve into the evolving role of engineering leaders, and the importa ... Show More
58m 45s
Mar 2023
010: The 3 considerations most people miss when it comes to the job search
Many candidates obsess over job titles, salaries, or having a certain company on their resume, and as a result, they often turn a blind eye to other things that can have a bigger impact in their career in the long term. In this episode, Sarah shares 3 things to consider that many ... Show More
6m 32s
Sep 2024
S5E37 Joe Moak | How to Accelerate the Speed of Engineering, Episode 3
Send us Fan MailIn this third episode of the special series on Accelerating the Speed of Engineering, Joe Moak discusses key bottlenecks like changing requirements, development failures, and design challenges. He also covers strategies for managing scope changes, balancing proble ... Show More
1h 3m
May 2025
Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact
<p>In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on t ... Show More
30m 32s
