Oct 18 2024 43 mins
We got to chat with Tamar Ben-Shachar! She's an engineering leader at Retool, and previously led eng teams at Stripe — so we wanted to know everything. Super excited to share this conversation with you all. We get into feature launches, eng hiring, and our favorite - Tamar's definition for product readiness: done, done & done.
(0:26) What themes has Tamar noticed across exceptional engineering teams?
(2:17) What does ready mean? Tamar's "done, done, done"
(7:04) Dani wants to know how Tamar balances a high quality bar w/ scope creep
(14:01) The impact of Retool's "quality bar dashboard"
(15:32) Tamar's advice for eng hiring at startups
(20:38) Dani & Irtefa share what it was like hiring Jam's first engineer
(28:23) Building the ability as a team to say "no"
(39:07) Tamar's advice to engineers: boast about your work!
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