PODCAST · technology
Lead Time Chats
by Range
Listen in on unscripted conversations between engineering leaders and other influential folks in tech.
Episodes
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Jen Dennard and Dan Pupius on Intentional Hybrid Policies
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Range co-founders Jen Dennard and Dan Pupius about how companies can roll-out intentional and effective hybrid work policies. Jean, Jen, and Dan discuss: Some of the more effective hybrid return-to-office…
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Nadia De Ala on Managing Up in a Hybrid Environment
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Nadia De Ala, Founder of Real You Leadership, about managing up in a hybrid work environment. Nadia and Jean discuss: What holds people back from managing up Not limiting yourself to managing up - think about...
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Douglas Ferguson on Facilitating Large Meetings
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Douglas Ferguson, Founder of Voltage Control, about feedback and performance conversations in a remote work environment. Douglas and Jean discuss: When a large meeting shouldn’t be a large meeting at all — and…
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Joaquín Roca on Feedback and Performance Conversations
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Joaquín Roca, Founder of Minerva, about feedback and performance conversations in a remote work environment. Joaquín and Jean discuss: Why it’s important to give feedback that’s frequent, timely, continuous, and...
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Brooks Scott on Diversity & Inclusion on Remote Teams
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Brooks Scott, Founder of Merging Path Coaching, about how to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion on remote and distributed teams. Brooks and Jean discuss: How companies commonly start and end their DEI…
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Fred Plais on Setting up a Globally Distributed Team for Success
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Fred Plais, CEO at Platform.sh, about setting up a globally distributed team for success. Fred and Jean discuss: The many advantages of hiring a globally distributed team, including round-the-clock support all...
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Steph Mann on Reinforcing Values on Remote Teams
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Steph Mann, Co-Founder of At Your Core, about reinforcing team values in remote and hybrid teams. Steph and Jean discuss: The risk of not taking the time to codify values as your company grows Choosing values…
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Andy Detskas on Building an Inclusive Meeting Culture
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Andy Detskas, most recently Design Leadership at Strava, about navigating conflict on remote teams. Andy and Jean discuss: Bringing an experience design mindset to meeting design How to build an inclusive culture...
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Suzan Bond on Navigating Conflict on Remote Teams
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Suzan Bond, Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach, about navigating conflict on remote teams. Suzan and Jean discuss: How conflict shows up differently on remote teams (more conflict avoidance than outbursts)...
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Jori Lallo on Working Effectively Across Different Timezones
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear, about working effectively across different timezones. Jori and Jean discuss: How to divide projects and work across timezones to reduce overhead Unexpected ways to connect…
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Hong Quan on Hiring for Remote Teams
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Hong Quan, owner of Hire Haus, about building remote teams. Hong and Jean discuss: the main challenges in hiring for and building remote teams how companies and hiring managers think differently about hiring for...
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Najeeb Khan on Belonging on Remote Teams
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Najeeb Khan, founder of TeamLand, about team-building and belonging. Najeeb and Jean discuss: why it's important for people to have a sense of belonging on their team the challenges most teams are facing these…
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Anna Sulkina on Endurance Sports and Software Engineering
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Anna Sulkina, Director of Engineering at Twitter, about the parallels between endurance spots and software engineering. Anna and Jean discuss: The many parallels between long-distance running and software...
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Pat Kua on Different Flavors of Tech Leadership
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Pat Kua, engineering leadership coach, about the different flavors of tech leadership. Pat and Jean discuss: Different archetypes of tech leadership, including engineering managers, staff engineers, tech leads…
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Dan Na on Pushing through Friction
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Dan Na, Senior Engineering Manager at Squarespace, about pushing through friction. Dan and Jean chat about: The inevitable friction that arises in fast-growing teams and companies Mindsets for thinking about...
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Jessie Duan on the Chief of Staff to CTO role
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Jessie Duan, Chief of Staff to the CTO at Roblox, about the Chief of Staff role. They discuss: What the Chief of Staff role looks like and the different kinds of work it entails How the role is similar and...
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Kate Heddleston on Managing Burnout on your Team
In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Kate Heddleston, Senior Engineering Manager at Samsara, about how to manage burnout on your engineering team. Kate and Jean discuss: What is burnout, and what does it look like in its early stages How to talk to...
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Jen Kim on How Startups can Hire Better
Kicking off Season 3 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Jennifer Kim, startup advisor and founder of Startup Recruiting Bootcamp, about how startups can hire better. Jen and Jean discuss: The current hiring environment that has shifted in favor of candidates What...
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Ellen Wong on Working on a Hybrid Team
In Season 2, Episode 12 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Ellen Wong, Director of Engineering at Calm, on practical advice for working on hybrid teams. Ellen and Jean discuss: The questions you should be asking when interviewing for a remote or hybrid team.…
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Sarah Milstein on Setting Remote and Hybrid Teams Up for Success
In this very first live episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, Range’s VP of Engineering, chats with Sarah Milstein, VP of Engineering at ConvertKit, about how to set remote and hybrid teams up for success. Sarah and Jean discuss: The biggest challenges hybrid and remote teams face Tactical tips…
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Jack Danger on Technical Debt
In Season 2, Episode 10 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Jack Danger, VP of Engineering at Pathstream, about technical debt — when to take it on, when and how to pay it down, and how to think about it. Jack and Jean discuss: How to think about technical debt as...
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Indrajit Khare on Getting Acquired by Google
In Season 2, Episode 9 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Indrajit Khare on what it's like to be at a startup acquired by Google. Indrajit was a lead engineer at Bump when it was acquired by Google, where he led the engineering team that built Google Photos and...
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Beau Lebens on Distributed Team Meetups
In Season 2, Episode 8 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering of WooCommerce at Automattic, about meetups for distributed teams. Beau has been at Automattic for over 12 years, a company which has been fully distributed and…
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Lynne Tye on the Engineering Hiring Landscape
In Season 2, Episode 7 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Lynne Tye, about how the engineering hiring landscape has changed over the past year and predictions for the months to come. Lynne is the founder of Key Values, a company that helps engineers find new…
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Chris Bee on Behaviors of Effective Engineering Leaders
In Season 2, Episode 6 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Chris Bee, CTO at Lessen, about the common behaviors of effective engineering leaders. Chris and Jean discuss: The difficulty in delegating and letting go of control - and why it's so important Dialing in...
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Rachael Stedman on IC Manager Work
In Season 2, Episode 5 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Rachael Stedman, engineering manager at Asana, about IC manager work, or work that engineering managers do outside of directly supporting their team. Rachael and Jean chat about: When to focus on…
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Sumeet Arora on moving on from a big company
In Season 2, Episode 4 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Sumeet Arora, Chief Development Officer at ThoughtSpot, about the challenges of moving on after a long stint at a large tech company. Sumeet joined Cisco almost straight out of school and spent over two...
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Kim Scott on building for systemic justic
In Season 2, Episode 3 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor and Just Work, about privilege and the importance of building for systemic justice. Kim and Jean discuss: The three revelations that led Kim down the path of working on…
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Tess Rinearson on early career engineering managers
In Season 2, Episode 2 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Tess Rinearson, VP of Engineering at Interchain, about advice for early career engineering managers. Tess became an engineering manager at 24 and noted that she's been solicited for advice for even younger...
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Camille Fournier on making boring plans
In Season 2, Episode 1 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Camille Fournier, Managing Director of Two Sigma and author of The Manager’s Path, about boring stuff — specifically building boring tech and making boring plans. Camille and Jean discuss: Limited innovation...
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Marc Hedlund on sponsorship
Wrapping up Series 1 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VPE at Range, chats with Marc Hedlund about the topic of sponsorship, and how to do it in a way that actually makes a difference. Marc has been an engineering leader at companies such as Mailchimp, Skyliner, and Stripe. He also is a Director for...
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Harper Reed on giving everyone a voice in team meetings
In Episode 11 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Harper Reed about how meetings can give everyone a voice in team meetings. Harper is currently CEO of Galactic. Formerly he was CEO of Modest, which was acquired by Paypal, and CTO of Obama for America. Host note:...
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Akhil Gupta on navigating uncertainty when transitioning roles
In Episode 10 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Akhil Gupta — formerly VP of Engineering and GM at Dropbox — about how to navigate uncertainty when transitioning to higher impact roles. How do you know when you’re ready for that next role? How do you fill in…
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Katie Wilde on supporting your team's mental health
In Episode 9 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Buffer and co-author of "The Holloway Guide to Remote Work," about supporting your team's mental health — and your own — in what feels like this final pandemic stretch. Jean and…
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Uma Chingunde on starting a VPE eng role in the pandemic
Uma Chingunde (VP of Engineering at Render) and Jean Hsu (VP of Engineering at Range) chat candidly about onboarding into their first-time VP of Engineering roles — during the pandemic, with kids distance learning at home! Jean and Uma discuss: Directly reporting to the CEO as a VP of Engineering...
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Kaya Thomas on common challenges early-career engineers face
In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Kaya Thomas, senior software engineer at Calm, about common challenges that early career engineers face. Jean and Kaya chat about: Overcoming some of the stigmas of being an early career engineer How to negotiate your first…
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Lara Hogan on leading effectively in a pandemic
In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Lara Hogan, author of Resilient Management, about how engineering managers can lead effectively a year into a global pandemic, even when they may be struggling. Jean and Lara chat about: Leaning into one-way asynchronous...
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Gergely Orosz on the decision to go into management
In this episode, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Gergely Orosz — formerly at Uber, Skyscanner, and Skype — about the decision to go into management. Jean and Gergely chat about: Why Gergely thought management was LAME - and resisted becoming a manager The huge contrast between...
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Juan Pablo Buriticá on common pitfalls engineering managers make at startups
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...
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Cate Huston on working with a coach as an engineering leader
Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo and raccoon enthusiast 🦝 about working with an external coach. Jean and Cate discuss: The role of a external coach compared to a manager The benefits of working with an external coach, especially…
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Duretti Hirpa on mentoring junior and mid-level engineers
Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Duretti Hirpa, a principal engineer at Zipper, about mentoring and coaching junior and mid-level engineers. Jean and Duretti discuss: What junior and mid-level engineers most need. Why women and people of color can't always take the advice they're...
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Will Larson on the path of the senior engineer
Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, talks to Will Larson, CTO at Calm, about getting into management early in his career and how it impacted his professional evolution and his books An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management and Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track....
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