In this episode, Hiten is sharing with us how Nira is hiring a global and scalable remote team and optimizing remote work practices.

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• 00:25 - Hiten Shah's path
• 03:00 - Hiring challenges in a remote and global setting
• 09:00 - Why great planning should be a core skill for all engineers
• 13:00 - Scaling a remote engineering team
• 14:00 - Optimizing remote work practices and planning exercises
• 15:50 - Async and sync communication at Nira
• 18:00 - Working remotely vs working from home during a global pandemic
• 28:00 - Adoption of distributed work

Dragan will share with us his study on optimizing PR and philosophy on async vs sync development. 

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• 02:20 - Dragan's path to extreme programming
• 04:00 - Dragan's study on the best way to code review
• 11:40 - "how do we keep the cost of code review per line of code constant, as we decrease the size of the PR"
• 12:00 - Synchronous code creation
• 13:40 - Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Building-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/B07BMBYHXL
• 14:30 - Mobbing and pairing for more productive and effective developers
• 16:00 - Deep dive into Dragan's study metrics and insights
• 18:50 - Enable teams to evaluate their current process in a data-informed way
• 20:00 - The results your team can expect from Dragan's study
• 22:30 - Latency in remote vs. co-located teams
• 24:00 - Remote vs. co-located and the tools to enable both
• 28:00 - Psychological safety and positive reinforcing feedback loop in synchronous workflows
• 35:00 - The tools to help you get into a collaboration mode faster
• 38:20 - Asynchronous versus synchronous work
• 39:00 - Fewer delays in communication leads to shorter feedback loops

https://www.slideshare.net/kobac/async-code-reviews-are-killing-your-companys-throughput-248758692

In this episode, Don Goodman-Wilson will be talking to Remote.com founder and CEO Job Van Der Voort about building, scaling, and managing remote teams, why Remote.com was founded, and the challenges for global remote teams.

Just last week the company announced they raised a $150 million Series B.

Remote.com provides international payroll benefits, taxes and compliance for businesses.

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• 00:40 - Remote.com founding story by Job and what the challenges are for remote global teams.
• 02:39 - How does remote.com structure its model to make international hiring a breeze? 
  04:20 - What were remote.com's biggest challenges when setting up this sort of system?
• 06:35 - What does it like harmonizing global vacation schedules in an "unlimited vacation" era?
• 09:15 - Trends in remote work and what's next?
• 11:40 - Job's tips for managers in different time zones
• 15:30 - What top skills and tools do you expect a remote worker to learn to be successful?
• 16:23 - How to be a better manager of a remote team
• 17:12 - What is Job's recommendation for the best remote working stack?
• 18:30 - Exploring VR as an alternative for bringing people together
• 20:45 - The advantages of remote work and diversity at remote.com

https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/03/quarter-work-home-lovers-rather-change-jobs-return-office