Prakriti Mateti
Director of Engineering
Melbourne, Australia
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Prakriti Mateti is a Director of Engineering. She cares deeply about engineering culture, complexity, what makes teams work well together, diversity, inclusion, and equity. Prakriti loves travelling and food, experimenting with different cuisines and cultures. She enjoys reading, conducting workshops, presenting talks, and occasionally jumping off something high.
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REACT to imposter syndrome
Do you worry sometimes that you're not as smart as the other people in your team? Or that you won't be able to keep up and they'll find out that you don't really belong there? Do you stress out about living up to people's expectations?
70% of people worldwide have felt like an imposter at some point in their career. 46% respondents to a women-in-tech survey agreed that help overcoming imposter syndrome would make them happier and more successful.
People working in tech often struggle to overcome prejudice and lack of privilege but still end up feeling like they don't belong, like they are a fraud, even when they're achieving success and making an impact. Imposter syndrome can affect people at any stage in their career - whether they're new to tech or in a senior leadership or executive role.
In this talk I'll go over personal experiences with imposter syndrome and practical strategies I've developed that anyone can apply to banish imposter thoughts and prevent them from getting in the way of your career progression, mental health, and happiness at work. An easy to remember acronym (REACT) with 5 realistic steps you can take away and practice can help you create a more accurate representation of your performance.
REACT to imposter syndrome
70% of people worldwide have felt like an imposter at some point in their career. 46% respondents to a women-in-tech survey agreed that help overcoming imposter syndrome would make them happier and more successful. Do you worry sometimes that you're not as smart as the other people in your organisation? Or that you won't be able to keep up and they'll find out that you don't really belong there? Do you stress out about living up to the expectations of the people you manage?
People working in tech often struggle to overcome prejudice and lack of privilege but still end up feeling like they don't belong, like they are a fraud, even when they're achieving success and making an impact. Imposter syndrome can affect people at any stage in their career - whether they're new to tech or in a senior leadership or executive role.
In this talk I'll go over personal experiences with imposter syndrome and practical strategies I've developed that anyone can apply to banish imposter thoughts and prevent them from getting in the way of your success, career progression, mental health, and happiness at work. An easy to remember acronym (REACT) with 5 realistic steps you can take away and practice can help you create a more accurate representation of your performance.
You can take these steps away for yourself, or if you are a people leader, use them to help coach your people through the confusing world of imposter syndrome.
One does not simply... rebuild a product
"A rebuild is never finished, only started"
"Technical rebuilds are doomed to fail"
“It takes 3 times as long as you expect to rewrite a system”
We're rebuilding Culture Amp's second largest product - Performance. It came in as a Series A acquisition 5 years ago and has thousands of customers today with the largest one at 77k users. Against conventional wisdom, we're rebuilding it from the ground up with an aggressive timeline. The underlying model is outdated, slow to iterate on, and not extensible. The monoliths are riddled with tech debt, tightly coupled, patched and band-aided over many times, and won't take us towards the $3b global Performance market we're targeting.
That wasn't challenging enough already so I'm also using this opportunity to rebuild our engineering culture. Setting a high bar for engineering standards, ways of working, and hoping to improve engagement as we go.
In this talk, I'll share:
- How I came to this decision
- How we got buy in from Exec and the Board for a purely technical rebuild
- How we tried to set up for success, our principles and standards
- Where we failed
- Where we succeeded
- Lessons that could be useful for anyone thinking about rebuilding a product that's hampering speed and hindering your ability to innovate or deliver value to your customers.
The rebuild is still in progress. I don't have all the answers (or any!). But we've already learned much - what to do, what not to do, and where the spiders are hiding.
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Prakriti Mateti
Director of Engineering
Melbourne, Australia
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