Slido Engineering Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Engineering and technology related talks

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In this episode, Dusan (Tech Lead) talks about layout primitives.
- What is it, and what problem it solves (+examples)? 
- What are the basic principles to use?
- How to implement it?
- What tools and libs to use?

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In this episode Davido (Tech Lead) talks about Front-End state management.
- What it is? 
- How to do it? Trivial way, Redux, MobX ... + Examples
- Should state be the first class citizen in Front-End app?
- How state management effect testing and more

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In this episode Svestka (Slido Co-Founder) talks about main lessons he learnt since beginning of Slido.
- What does it mean to start a company after graduation?
- What makes you learn fast?
- How to deal with burnout/s?
- And more ...

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In this episode Lubos (Engineering Leader) shares his thoughts and experience with ownership in sw engineering teams.
- What is ownership in sw engineering context?
- How to build teams using this principle?
- Pros and cons and why to do it?
- How to measure it?
- And Lubos's examples from Amazon

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In this episode Ivan (Tech Lead) and Iza (Product Manger) shares their thoughts about delightful product touches.
- What is delightful product?
- How to discover and deliver it?
- How to measure it?
- And why to do it?

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In this episode Virpo (Tech Lead) shares his experience from attending, winning and organizing hackathons.
- How and why we run internal hackathons?
- Do we have rules?
- What is the most important thing?
- And secret tips how to pitch good idea and win ...

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In this episode Palo (Tech Lead) and Brozi (Product Manager) share how they work together in order to build the great product.
- What is working well and what is annoying?
- How they divide the responsibility and what is the benefit?
- Who is the boss at the end of the day?
- And what is their secret ingredient?

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In this episode Marek (MrShu) will explain his strategy about building a modern Data/R&D team.
- Where to start and how to build solid baseline?
- Who to hire the first?
- Data democracy,  data driven or data informed?
- And what fancy Machine Learning and Data (even) science stuff he is working on 

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In this episode, Filip shared his career twist story. 
We talked about how he switched from psychology to testing and then test automation. 
This could be an inspiration for people who are thinking about a career in IT.

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This is not a typical engineering topic but is worth to listen.
Dodo shared his experience and knowledge about giving feedback but we spent significant time talking about receiving feedback which could be an eye-opener.

Book mentioned in the show: https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well/dp/0143127136