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Why Everybody Unpacks the Dishwasher: Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab
Most people teams wait until someone with an HR background is in the room before they build a culture function.
220% more code. 36% more product.
Meta tried to transform the whole organisation. Me&u started with three people. Your best engineers are watching both.
The Engineer Who Hasn't Written Code in 9 Months: Jack Rudenko, 10x Labs
Jack Rudenko hasn't written a line of code himself in nine months.
The difference between average and excellent is as wide as ever
Six in ten CTOs on the way out. Canva's new hiring filter. Core skills for AI Engineers and Knowledge Workers.
Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of
Eight guests into Building Tech Teams, one theme has shown up in every single episode: money.
Your interview is testing the old job
Hiring AI roles after redundancies. The need for Product People. Interviewing for the new ways of software engineering.
Why "The Number Is Never the Problem": Matt McFarlane, Founder of FNDN
Most companies treat compensation as a math problem: get the number right and the rest takes care of itself.
AI just hit the P&L
Canva found the cost problem. Westpac found 150,000 hours. Atlassian found the payoff.
Why "Show Me Your Harness" Beats Any Coding Test: Adam Witanowski, AI Architect
Most technical interviews still ask a candidate to write a function on a whiteboard.
One person and 3,000 agents
Skill stacking, superpower stacking, agent stacking. How tech teams are being rebuilt this year, plus the founder who stepped away from his own company.
The Junior Engineer Isn't Needed Anymore: Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Lead at Airtree
The junior engineer used to be the safe first hire.
Who's checking the AI?
Trust runs through the whole issue: who checks the AI's output, who owns the strategy, and how far should we trust it. Plus a bank's AI lead on getting it into production.
How to Build AI Capability Without Chasing Every New Model, with Patrick McQuaid
Most organisations are asking which AI model they should use.
AI is rewriting the job, and repricing it
Roles aren't vanishing, they're being rebuilt around AI, and the people who can build are getting paid like never before. The AI Jobs Index backing up the trend. From James at NTP Talent.
Are Your People More Productive or Just Faster? Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Startup Flamingo
Every great team she has ever seen shares one trait: they are comfortable with discomfort.
Australia is the world's biggest Claude user. Almost nobody noticed
Burnout a bigger fear than job loss, Australia tops Anthropic's usage index, and the real ROI story is automation. Live AI Jobs Index numbers inside. From James at NTP Talent.
AI Can’t Replace Domain Expertise — Nathan Hill, Head of Telco at AWS
The business wants AI, and it wants it yesterday.
55% of bosses regret their AI layoffs
IBM rehires, Microsoft puts 6,000 humans on AI implementation, and Lendi makes working with AI a rated skill. Live AI Jobs Index numbers inside. By James MacDonald.
Guardrails Are Just Suggestions: Securing AI Agents with Okta's Kevin Akermanis
The business wants AI now.
The middle of Australian tech is exposed
Where AI is creating senior seats, where it is cutting the experienced middle, and the layer most exposed right now.