Lead Time Chats

Juan Pablo Buriticá on common pitfalls engineering managers make at startups

Episode Summary

Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Juan Pablo Buriticá, most recently Head of LatAm Engineering at Stripe, about the common pitfalls engineering managers make at high-growth startups.

Episode Notes

Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Juan Pablo Buriticá, most recently Head of LatAm Engineering at Stripe, about the common pitfalls engineering managers make at high-growth startups.

Jean and Juan Pablo discuss:

• The difference between being a manager at a high-growth startup vs. a larger, more established company
• The importance of understanding business needs in communicating about technical work
• Why you shouldn't just copy processes from other companies wholesale (like Spotify's matrix management)
• What it means to take a product approach to team processes