What's up everyone, this is Dariusz Kalbarczyk co-founder of NG Poland, JS Poland, AngularMaster.dev & WorkshopFest.dev. Welcome back to the Angular Master Podcast.
Today we've got a special guest from Warsaw Poland, CTO at Cobiro. Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Radzio
Questions:
- Hi Greg, How are you?
- Do you have your favorite podcast?
- What do you do on a daily basis?
- What does Cobiro do?
- Tell me more about your flagship product.
- Let's talk about how you successfully built your development team and how you manage it now. How many developers were in the beginning and how many developers are there now?
- Was it easy to build such a team?
- What were your biggest problems along the way?
- What are your goals in Cobiro now?
- What kind of people are you looking for?
- How do you make sure that these people stay in your organization?
- Is it possible to cooperate with you remotely?
- What technology do you use and why is it Angular?
- Biggest Angular challenges you've come across?
- You are relatively new on a polish scene, tell us your story
- How do you structure your teams?
- Everyone complains about hiring talent in Poland and especially in Warsaw, how come you attracted so many people in such a short time competing with bigger and better known companies?
- What is your frontend stack?
- Do you do open source? Why?
- How do you test your angular app?
- How do you develop a feature?
- How about junior and mid level developers? Do they exist in Cobiro?
- How often do you release? What is your release cycle?
- What is Quality Assurance to you?
- How do you deal with legacy code?
- How do you make sure that your developers always get better?
- What is a skill grid?
- And then what happens?
- What kind of person is Greg? How do you see yourself?
- Do you have some hints for us regarding self-organization?
- Do you have any favorite hobbies?
- What’s about your work/life balance? Do you have some hints for us?
- You will be a speaker at NG Poland 2021, what are you preparing for this year's edition?