How to Influence Change in Engineering Teams

What are some of the first steps you took as new grads to level up your engineering career?

How to establish continuous learning culture in an organization?

Have you experienced discrimination based on gender or age?

At my last company, I was able to influence change quite easily. However, at my current company I have struggled. It has affected my confidence which makes being an influencer even harder. How can...

What is a typical day look like as a Software Engineer at Intuit?

Given how hard it is to estimate Software Engineering work, any advice on influencing change in estimating and putting together timelines for a given project?

What key messages do you have for your leadership (direct manager + sr. leaders)?

How do I engage team members of different ages and skill levels?

What is the most important step to do right away to start seeing tangible results in Change Management?

What do you think of the idea of "blameless culture"? Is it helpful for fostering a supportive work culture? At any point does it undermine accountability?

What challenges have you faced as a member of an underrepresented community in tech?

How would you do it to promote the use of Pair Programming among programmers who are not convinced by the usage of this technique? Let's say their arguments against using Pair Programming are:...

How important has it been to have a supportive engineering manager? Any experiences you would like to share where your manager specifically impacted (positively or negatively) your ability to...

What is the biggest challenge you've encountered in your career?

Leadership at my company puts us in charge of our own advancement - which is great! My problem is, I don’t know what all I should be learning and when asked the answer is vague and not directive....

How much customer interaction is too much?

Any advice to persuade higher ups (managers, architects, engineers that are a level higher than you) to adopt new best practices rather than just stick with "what always has worked"?

What should I do to increase my chance of getting an interview at Intuit?

What has been the most difficult step in your change process?

How to advocate for myself in an adamant team?

What can you suggest for gaining your confidence to ask questions?

Any tips you could share on how to get my idea to spread and adopted across the organization.