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Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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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00:20:37

Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/12/12

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Richard Bown about transitioning from management back to individual contributor roles, leading from any position, and creating humane engineering organizations. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/48BF9v9 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and

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00:32:47

Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug...

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2025/12/05

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Satish Kothapalli about the transformative impact of AI and vibe coding in life sciences software development, the acceleration of drug development timelines, and the evolving roles of developers in an AI-augmented environment. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3M2E9ZH Subscribe to the Software Architects’

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00:29:21

Authenticity Over Convention: Lessons from 16 Years...

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2025/11/28

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Joe Cassavaugh about building a sustainable solopreneur game development business, the importance of authenticity over conventional wisdom, and learning from both successes and failures in the digital content marketplace. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/3KtvGy1 Subscribe to the Software Architects’

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00:29:20

AI Amplifies Team Strengths and Weaknesses in...

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2025/11/14

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jon Kern and Anita Zbieg about how AI amplifies both delivery efficiency and weaknesses in development teams, the importance of fundamental collaboration practices, and maintaining holistic system thinking. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4nORJNh Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your

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00:28:45

From Technical Excellence to Leadership:...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/10/24

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Frankie Berkoben about executive coaching for engineering leaders, applying iterative development to personal growth, and supporting neurodivergent team members. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/43ktteu Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and

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00:24:15

Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/10/17

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Luv Kapur about building composable team structures, creating trust through transparency and clarity, and enabling fluid organizational design through API-first team principles. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4nVp3TQ Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential

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00:30:17

Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/10/10

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg about how understanding brain science and emotional intelligence can help engineers and technical leaders improve communication, manage conflict, and build stronger teams. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/4pY8tnE Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly

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00:20:27

Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/10/03

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Marcos Arribas about building and scaling engineering culture as an organisation grows, emphasizing autonomous teams, ownership mentality, progressive feature rollouts with flags, small pull requests, strategic AI adoption, and the importance of hiring junior engineers for long-term organizational growth. Read a transcript of

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00:28:30

How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/09/26

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience over individual blame, and creating high-performing teams that can embrace change and learn from failures. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/42rq1yv Subscribe to the Software Architects’

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00:25:16

The Myth of 100% Utilization: The Neuroscience of...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/09/19

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Shannon Mason about optimizing team productivity by understanding the neuroscience behind cognitive load, distinguishing between beneficial "slack time" and detrimental "idle time", and how the pursuit of maximum utilization that leads to burnout and poor decision-making. Read a transcript of this interview:

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00:28:20

Why Software Development Sucks And 7 Mental Models To...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/09/12

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thanos Diacakis about how teams often struggle with software delivery. He proposes a shift in mental models and a four-step framework to systematically improve software development by focusing on bottlenecks, balancing different types of work beyond just feature delivery, and investing 20-30% of effort in improving how the team

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00:22:51

The Evolution of Code Review: From Bug-Finding to...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/09/05

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Greg Foster about the evolution and purpose of code reviews, building teams with kindness, expertise, and urgency, and how AI tools are changing software development. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/42bhTBN Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and

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00:25:40

Building a Resilient and Inclusive Engineering...

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2025/08/29

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matthew Card about his resilience framework (CAPSS - Confidence, Adaptability, Purpose, Social Support) which has helped him overcome career challenges and now guides him in building inclusive engineering cultures by empowering teams and breaking echo chambers. Read a transcript of this interview:

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00:29:29

Finding Your Engineering Bottleneck: The Hierarchy of...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/08/22

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Myles Henaghan about the open-sourced "Hierarchy of Engineering Needs" - a systematic framework inspired by Maslow's hierarchy that helps engineering leaders identify and prioritize the most impactful constraints limiting their software delivery systems among competing improvement initiatives. Read a transcript of this

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00:32:01

Engineering Leadership: Building Culture, Career...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/08/15

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thiago Ghisi about building engineering culture through leading by example, advancing careers by embracing "glue work" (non-technical but necessary tasks), taking full ownership of projects, and developing self-awareness to choose between technical and management career paths. Read a transcript of this interview:

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00:28:50

Elisabeth Hendrickson on Systems Thinking for Quality...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/08/08

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson about using systems thinking to understanding relationships between problem elements rather than focusing on individual parts, and how quality engineering practices become even more critical in the age of AI where tools can accelerate code production but humans need to remain in charge of verification and

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00:19:11

Team Building in the Brave New World: Transforming...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/08/01

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Duncan Grazier about transforming software engineering teams into polymorphic cultures where humans work alongside AI agents, requiring leaders to rethink career paths, focus more on communication and coaching skills, and navigate the implications of how the gap between junior and senior engineers rapidly closes due to AI

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00:28:38

Building Human-Centered Engineering Cultures with...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/07/25

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tara Hernandez about the importance of building generative cultures with strong leadership development, psychological safety, diversity, and transparency over simply chasing new technologies. Technology should be a means to solve meaningful human problems rather than an end in itself. Read a transcript of this interview:

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00:27:26

Building a Product-First Engineering Culture in the...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/07/18

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Zach Lloyd about building a product-first engineering culture, and the critical importance of developers learning to effectively use AI tools while maintaining responsibility for code quality and understanding fundamental programming principles. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/4eJO6oU Subscribe to the

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00:30:04

GitHub Next: how their research and prototyping team...

Engineering Culture by InfoQ ·

2025/07/11

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Idan Gazit and Eddie Aftandilian from GitHub Next how their research and prototyping team operates as a "department of fool around and find out", exploring AI-powered developer tools through rapid experimentation and user feedback. Read a transcript of this interview: http://bit.ly/45XoUsP Subscribe to the Software

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