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How Slack's Engineering & Product Leaders are Building Strong Cross-Team Collaboration

Rukmini Reddy (VP of Engineering at Slack), Steve Wood (VP of Product at Slack), and Veena Basavaraj (Sr Director of Engineering at WeWork) dig into the heart of fostering a great relationship between mission-based cross-functional teams.

How To Implement Strategic Change While Maximizing Success In A Remote Setup

Amit Sawant, Chief Product & Business Officer at Somatix, and Sophia Broomfield decode how to manage the unknown with confidence during the difficult times of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Remote Hiring and Communication Strategies to Increase Team Productivity

Vijay Gill, SVP of Engineering at RapidAPI, and Vivek Ravisankar, Co-founder/CEO at HackerRank, share modern-day hiring practices and communication strategies while working in a remote-first environment.

Building a great remote hiring and onboarding process for engineers

Tips from the Director of Engineering at Calm, Ellen Wong and the Director of Engineering at Venmo, Papanii Okai

How Tom Willerer Motivates Product and Engineering Teams

During his time at Coursera, their product and engineering team grew from 50 to 160 people. As CPO, Tom had to ensure that the team stayed motivated and continued to ship products at a rapid clip. In this AMA, he shares how he did that.

How To Build Collaboration Between Engineering and Product Teams - Rachel Obstler, VP Product at PagerDuty

Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, shares her insights on building collaboration between engineering and product teams, along with some delightful hockey references!

How Nicolas Dupont, VP of Engineering at Akeneo, Solves His Challenges Via Mentorship

Nicolas Dupont is the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Akeneo, a Product Information Management solution for eCommerce websites. In this interview, Nicolas tells us about his challenges as a leader of a fast-growing engineering team, and how he solves those challenges via Plato.

You're a great engineer.
Become a great engineering leader.

Plato (platohq.com) is the world's biggest mentorship platform for engineering managers & product managers. We've curated a community of mentors who are the tech industry's best engineering & product leaders from companies like Facebook, Lyft, Slack, Airbnb, Gusto, and more.