Software World with Candost Podcast

Have you ever thought of being a manager or team lead after spending some time in engineering? Most of the time, people believe that it's a one-way road. 

This week, we talked about career changes in software engineering. My guest was Tobias Bales. He is a Software Engineer at Jimdo. He worked as an Engineering Manager for two years and decided to go back to engineering.

You can find show notes at candost.blog.

Have you ever thought a person doesn't understand what you say? Did you ever get feedback that you disagreed with what they were talking about? Working with a team is a big challenge. Cultural differences affect relationships and team performance. Even people coming from similar cultures struggle a lot. This week, we talked about how we can approach people coming from different cultures and have healthy relationships.  

You can find the show notes at candost.blog.

My guest was Fırat Karataş. Fırat works as an iOS Engineer at SoundCloud. We talked about mobile apps at scale and the challenges they face.

You can find the show notes at candost.blog.

In this episode, we talked about 

What kind of engineering problems often occur in startups? How to choose the right tool and tech stack? How are the software development processes in startups? 

and many more!  

My guest was Fatih Acet. Fatih is the Co-Founder & CTO of Superpeer, Co-Founder of Kodilan.com. He is Google Developer Expert (GDE) on Web Technologies. He was the second front-end engineer of GitLab. We talked about software development challenges in startups. We focused on how to overcome engineering challenges and his experiences with Superpeer and GitLab.  

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This week my guest was Peri. Peri is the President of Sipsetter Co. She has an extensive background in marketing. After graduating from Duke University and getting an MBA from Harvard Business School, she was the consultant and the director of marketing, strategy, and communications in different companies (including McKinsey, Pozitron/Monitise, CoffeeTable). We talked about startup marketing challenges. We focused on how startups should approach marketing and how they can overcome obstacles like user segmentation, user growth.

We talked about

- How do startups grow with help from marketing?

- How to choose the right marketing strategy?

- How to approach stagnating user growth?

- Marketing strategies for going from local to global.

- How can engineers and marketers work together?

and many more!

My guest was Oksana Shcherban. She works as a Working Student iOS Developer at Bonial.com and studies International Media and Computing at HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences. We talked about being a working student in the Tech Industry. We focused on the challenges and how companies treat students. We dove into Oksana's journey about dropping university in Ukraine, moving to Germany, and starting university with a different major.  

We talked about 

🔸 How to move to Germany from a non-EU country while studying? 

🔸 How to find a job as a software developer while studying? 

🔸 What are the challenges of working while you are studying? 

🔸 How do companies treat students at work? 

🔸 What do students need from companies?  

and many more! 

My guest was Yasemin Alpay. She works as a Senior Backend Engineer at Bonial.com. We discussed one of the essential topics - diversity and gender discrimination in Tech. We focused on the diversity problems in the software world. Why do women (and non-men genders) struggle to receive the credit? What makes a woman's work-life hard?

We talked about  

- What is discrimination? 

- Why are we bad at diversity in tech? 

- Is the entry barrier high? 

- What is the glass-ceiling effect? 

- What is harassment at work? 

- Does discrimination happen only to gender? 

 and many more!

 "If your team has a culture of chest-thumping and yelling and screaming at one another, the only people you'll attract (and retain) are aggressive types who feel right at home in this environment composed of strong individual egos (in fact, most of the women we know find this kind of environment especially off-putting)." - Fitzpatrick & Collins-Sussman (Debugging Teams)  

This time my guest was Göksel Köksal. He works as a Principal iOS Engineer at Drop Kitchen. 

We talked about how we approach designing the technical side of the projects. We started with how to apply requests from product owners to code. Later on, we dived into how to maintain and evolve a good technical design.  

We answered questions such as 

- How do we work together with a product owner? 

- What are the phases in development and delivery? 

- What are the essential topics to consider in the technical design phase? 

- How do we explain technical challenges to product teams? 

- How do we maintain a good technical design? 

and many more!

My guest is Sabrican Ozan. Sabrican works as a Lead Software Developer at takeaway.com. We talked about how takeaway.com holds technical interviews. We started with the evaluation of the applications and went through the whole interview process.   

We answered many questions, such as 

- What are the key points that they take a look at Takeaway?

- How much time does it take from start to finish?

- How do software developers feel about their interviews?

- What kind of questions do they ask in the interviews?

and many more.