Engineering Culture by InfoQ
by InfoQ
Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
Episodes
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The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time...
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Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi about systems thinking as a lens for software delivery, the cultural "levers" leaders…
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Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a...
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Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature...
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Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. This is the Engineering Culture Trends Report for 2026. Featuring a panel of QCon speakers and InfoQ contributors, they discussed AI adoption maturity and risk, the transformation of engineering…
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Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically...
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Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source…
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The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech AI, about bringing joy back to software development in the AI era, the...
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Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sam Bhagwat, co-founder and CEO of Mastra, about building and sustaining open source communities, the emerging discipline of...
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Information Flow: The Hidden Driver of Engineering Culture
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adrian Peryer about Ron Westrum's organizational culture continuum, the role of information flow in shaping team culture,...
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Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ben Greene about embracing AI in software engineering, expanding beyond pure technical skills to understand business...
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The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership with business development, and...
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Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Gillian about building cross-functional teams for physical AI innovation, growing engineering culture through…
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Why Engineering Culture Is Everything: Building Teams That Actually Work
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado about the central role of engineering culture, measuring team health through qualitative metrics,...
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Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gilad Shoham about building effective mentorship relationships, leading fully distributed teams and the evolving role of...
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Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering Organizations
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Richard Bown about transitioning from management back to individual contributor roles, leading from any position, and…
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Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Satish Kothapalli about the transformative impact of AI and vibe coding in life sciences software development, the...
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Authenticity Over Convention: Lessons from 16 Years of Solo Game Development
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Joe Cassavaugh about building a sustainable solopreneur game development business, the importance of authenticity over...
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AI Amplifies Team Strengths and Weaknesses in Software Development
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jon Kern and Anita Zbieg about how AI amplifies both delivery efficiency and weaknesses in development teams, the…
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From Technical Excellence to Leadership: Understanding Yourself First
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Frankie Berkoben about executive coaching for engineering leaders, applying iterative development to personal growth, and...
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Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid Organizational Structures
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Luv Kapur about building composable team structures, creating trust through transparency and clarity, and enabling fluid...
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Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg about how understanding brain science and emotional intelligence can help engineers and...
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Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and Ownership
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Marcos Arribas about building and scaling engineering culture as an organisation grows, emphasizing autonomous teams,...
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How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience...
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The Myth of 100% Utilization: The Neuroscience of Productive Teams
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Shannon Mason about optimizing team productivity by understanding the neuroscience behind cognitive load, distinguishing...
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Why Software Development Sucks And 7 Mental Models To Help Fix It
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thanos Diacakis about how teams often struggle with software delivery. He proposes a shift in mental models and a…
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The Evolution of Code Review: From Bug-Finding to Team Building
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Greg Foster about the evolution and purpose of code reviews, building teams with kindness, expertise, and urgency, and how...
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Building a Resilient and Inclusive Engineering Culture with Matthew Card
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matthew Card about his resilience framework (CAPSS - Confidence, Adaptability, Purpose, Social Support) which has helped…
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Finding Your Engineering Bottleneck: The Hierarchy of Engineering Needs
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Myles Henaghan about the open-sourced "Hierarchy of Engineering Needs" - a systematic framework inspired by Maslow's...
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Engineering Leadership: Building Culture, Career Growth, and Ownership
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Thiago Ghisi about building engineering culture through leading by example, advancing careers by embracing "glue work"...
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on Systems Thinking for Quality Engineering
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson about using systems thinking to understanding relationships between problem elements rather than...
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Team Building in the Brave New World: Transforming Software Engineering Culture and Leadership
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Duncan Grazier about transforming software engineering teams into polymorphic cultures where humans work alongside AI…
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Building Human-Centered Engineering Cultures with Leadership, Diversity, and Trust
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tara Hernandez about the importance of building generative cultures with strong leadership development, psychological…
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Building a Product-First Engineering Culture in the Age of AI
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Zach Lloyd about building a product-first engineering culture, and the critical importance of developers learning to...
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GitHub Next: how their research and prototyping team operates
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Idan Gazit and Eddie Aftandilian from GitHub Next how their research and prototyping team operates as a "department of…
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Trust-first Leadership and Building Great Teams
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Natan Žabkar Nordberg about how effective leadership requires treating people as whole humans, giving trust first,...
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From Code to Strategy: Drive Organizational Impact Through Strategic Conversations and User Focus
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mark Allen about how engineers can expand their influence through strategic conversations, user-focused development...
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Productivity Through Play: Why Messing Around Makes Better Software Engineers
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Holly Cummins about productivity in creative knowledge work like software engineering. She talks about how "messing around...
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Technology Radar and the Reality of AI in Software Development
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rachel Laycock, Global CTO of Thoughtworks, about how the company's Technology Radar process captures technology trends...
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Using AI Code Generation to Migrate 20000 Tests
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sergii Gorbachov, a staff engineer at Slack, about how they successfully used AI combined with traditional coding…
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Emerson Murphy-Hill on Engineering Productivity, Team Dynamics and Equity
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Emerson Murphy-Hill about how measuring developer productivity is tricky, why team dynamics and psychological safety matter...
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Technical Leadership: Building Powerful Solutions with Simplicity and Inclusion
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Bhavani Vangala about creating powerful yet simple technology solutions, taking a balanced approach to AI tools, fostering...
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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2025
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. This is the Engineering Culture Trends Report for 2025. Featuring the InfoQ editorial team and special guest Charity Majors, they discuss how AI is transforming software development with dramatic...
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Achieving Sustainable Mental Peace in Software Engineering with Help from Generative AI
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to John Gesimondo about how to leverage generative AI tools to support sustainable mental peace and productivity in the…
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Building Empathy and Accessibility: Fostering Better Engineering Cultures and Developer Experiences
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Erin Doyle about her journey as a generalist engineer, her passion for web accessibility, the importance of empathy and...
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Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and...
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Adam Sandman on Generative AI and the Future of Software Testing
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Adam Sandman about how generative AI is transforming software development and testing by automating mundane tasks, enabling...
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Building Your Personal Brand and Making an Impact: Insights from Principal Engineer Pablo Fredrikson
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Fredrikson, a principal engineer at Bitso, about the importance of building a personal brand, sharing knowledge, and...
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Claire Vo on Building High-Performing, Customer-Centric Teams in the Age of AI
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, about building high-performing, customer-centric teams,...
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Engineering Culture and the API Revolution: A Conversation with Sagar Batchu
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sagar Batchu about building engineering teams in different environments, the transition from individual contributor to...
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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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