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058: Kindness and Patience with Tara Scherner de la Fuente
00:16 – Welcome to Episode 111010 of the Greater Than Code Podcast!
02:09 – Tara’s Superpower and Origin Story: Patience
04:56 – Conflating Patience with Kindness
07:39 – Is writing code making us less thoughtful? AKA Patience in the Workplace
The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (The Doherty Threshold)
16:22 – Warning Signs that a Company’s Culture is Not a Good One; Also, is it the company or is it individuals within a company?
22:59 – Looking for and Interviewing for a Job at a Less Toxic Environment
33:20 – What does it mean to be a developer?
36:33 – Interviewing and Privilege
39:35 – Advice for Early Career Developers
44:10 – Remote Work Culture
Reflections:
Coraline: Being patient and kind.
Astrid: Software development is always something you can continue to improve at.
Tara: People don’t have to be exactly like us to be a person that we want to work with. Being different can be an asset.
Sam: Interviewing somebody should be able finding out how they think and not about what they necessary know at the moment.
Special Guest: Tara Scherner de la Fuente.