Sally Lait's guest appearances

Sally Lait

Level-up Engineering

Make Better Decisions

Jeff Perry

Ryan Nystrom

Matt Martin

Bob Martin

Sarah Wells

Camille Fournier

Olivia Liddell

Michael Lopp

Katie Womersley

Farhan Thawar

Rich Archbold

Adam Wolff

Rob Volk

Matt Greenberg

Tom Bartel

OwlTail

Monzo

Interview with Sally Lait, Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo. Their engineering culture is well-known in the industry for being one of the best. In this podcast you'll learn how to improve your engineering culture and what red flags to look for.In this interview we're covering:Key elements of a great engineering cultureMonzo's engineering cultureCultural on-boardingEngineering culture metricsBuilding your engineering cultureSigns of a weak engineering cultureDangerous behaviorsImproving your engineering cultureImplementing changes to your cultureScaling your engineering cultureExcerpt from the interview:"My favourite thing in the culture here is that defaulting to transparency is a key value for us. It doesn’t mean everything is transparent, but we keep as much in the open as possible. This includes engineering proposals as well.When somebody is looking to make a change to the architecture or to the culture, they write a proposal, and anybody in the company is free to comment and to share their views. This way, everyone can see what's going on. Everything goes through Slack, so everything is visible.Slack is an important tool from a cultural point of view as well. One of our senior engineers built the Guys bot, which pings up on Slack if anybody uses the word “guys.” It’s not an inclusive phrase.We've built these things into our wider culture by using our engineering skills to create tools. I love how these gently nudge people to live out the key company values."Click here to read the full interview!

Interview with Sally Lait, Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo. Their engineering culture is well-known in the industry for being one of the best. In this podcast you'll learn how to improve your engineering culture and what red flags to look for.In this interview we're covering:<ul><li>Key elements of a great engineering culture</li><li>Monzo's engineering culture</li><li>Cultural on-boarding</li><li>Engineering culture metrics</li><li>Building your engineering culture</li><li>Signs of a weak engineering culture</li><li>Dangerous behaviors</li><li>Improving your engineering culture</li><li>Implementing changes to your culture</li><li>Scaling your engineering culture</li></ul>Excerpt from the interview:"My favourite thing in the culture here is that defaulting to transparency is a key value for us. It doesn’t mean everything is transparent, but we keep as much in the open as possible. This includes engineering proposals as well.When somebody is looking to make a change to the architecture or to the culture, they write a proposal, and anybody in the company is free to comment and to share their views. This way, everyone can see what's going on. Everything goes through Slack, so everything is visible.Slack is an important tool from a cultural point of view as well. One of our senior engineers built the Guys bot, which pings up on Slack if anybody uses the word “guys.” It’s not an inclusive phrase.We've built these things into our wider culture by using our engineering skills to create tools. I love how these gently nudge people to live out the key company values."<a href="https://codingsans.com/blog/engineering-culture-monzo?utm_source=Podcast&amp;utm_medium=platforms" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to read the full interview!</a>

Engineering Culture: Sally Lait (Senior Engineering Manager at Monzo)