Hey folks, I just released a new episode of my podcast, Señors @ Scale (LinkedIn, Instagram), where I talk to senior engineers about what it really takes to scale code, teams, and yourself.

This week’s guest is Angel Paredes, Engineering Manager at Datadog, and previously Staff Engineer at Glovo and Tech Lead at PayPal. We dig into:

Why he left test tooling… and why it pulled him back What it's like managing 15 engineers across frontend and libraries Hot takes on AI-assisted interviews and spotting real candidates Surviving giant monorepos (like the one that takes 30 mins to clone) How conference speaking made him a better leader Book and burnout recs (yes, we talk about Terry Pratchett too)

Angel still codes, still manages, and still laughs through the chaos of scaling product teams.

Listen here: Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/dan-neciu/episodes/... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdH2EXhT1SI Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interviewing-at-scale-... Takeaways: https://neciudan.dev/senors-at-scale

I would love to hear what you think and what you'd like to hear more of. I try to do one episode per week, my next guest list for the next months:

- Tudor Barbu, Principal Engineer at Logify

- Matheus Albuquerque, Staff Software Engineer at Medallia

- José Enrique Calderón Sanz, Lead Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase

- Erik Rasmussen, Principal Software Engineer at Attio

- Faris Aziz, Staff Software Engineer at Smallpdf

- Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes, Senior Frontend Engineer at Happening

Please subscribe if this is something you enjoy! Thanks!