Natalia
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Hosted by Natalia
20+ years building engineering hiring engines for Fortune 500s, banks and scale-ups. Author of training programmes for hiring managers. The questions she asks her guests are the ones she's lived through with clients.
Conversations dropping monthly
Each episode is one tech leader, one hard story, one practical takeaway you can use this quarter. Below: the season-one line-up — first episodes are coming, the rest are confirmed guests in scheduling.
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01Episode 01 · upcoming
"We had 6 weeks to hire 80 people. Here's what broke first."
A former VP of Engineering at a publicly-traded SaaS company on the surge that nearly broke the org — and the three process changes that saved it. Guest name pending publication consent.
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02Episode 02 · upcoming · ex-Netflix tech leader
"How we hired a senior platform team across three continents"
An ex-Netflix engineering leader on building a global platform team with the same standards across regions — and the moments where "global" almost became "local with extra steps".
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03Episode 03 · upcoming · banking CIO
"The Head of AI we hired — and the one we almost hired"
A banking CIO on running a first-of-kind Head of AI search — what the brief looked like at week 0, what it looked like at week 6, and the candidate they almost made an offer to but didn't.
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04Episode 04 · upcoming · Lisbon tech founder
"Hiring senior engineers in Portugal when nobody's heard of you"
A Lisbon-based fintech founder on building the engineering team for a US-funded company in a market where the candidates haven't heard of your investors. Reputation as a sourcing channel.
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05Episode 05 · upcoming · outsourcer founder
"We bet the company on a 9-week staffing window — and won"
A tech-outsourcer founder on the moment they signed a $20M contract and realised the team didn't exist yet. The funnel decisions, the same-time-zone bet, and what they'd do differently.
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06Episode 06 · upcoming · ML platform lead
"Hire AI engineers or wait for AI to do the job?"
A platform engineering leader at a public AI-infra company on where the line is — which engineering work AI agents now handle well, where humans still win, and how that changes hiring strategy in 2026–28.
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