Topics we covered:

Retaining Top Talent
Understanding your employees before it's too late
Safe Spaces
Are more Engineering Managers better?
Hypergrowth Hiring
Diversity Hiring
Time spent on Talent Acquisition?
Offers strategy

Meet the guests:

Kirby Frugia - https://www.mural.co/blog/meet-kirby-frugia

Kirby Frugia is MURAL’s SVP of Engineering and is responsible for Product Engineering, DevOps, and Data Engineering. He joined the company in October 2020, and since then, he has grown his team from 48 MURAListas to over 200. Kirby first got into software engineering because he loves problem-solving and making things easier for people — whether that’s a process, a tool, or an experience. He’s always looking for ways to unlock someone’s creativity or ability to do more with what’s in front of them.

Ken Pickering - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenpickering/

Ken Pickering is the SVP of Engineering at Starburst Data, where he's looking to help companies make better, faster decisions on more complete data. Before that, he was the CTO of Hopper and made travel easy and affordable.

David Ting - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dting

David Ting joined Nylas from Flexport, where he led platform Engineering. David brings nearly 30 years of experience leading high-performance engineering teams for companies as diverse as Yahoo!, IBM, and Activision | Blizzard.

I hope you enjoyed the episode. The best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you want me to cover specific topics with future guests.

Round Table 1 - Focusing on hiring while retaining your talent