Podcast: Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS. By Adam Wachtel
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, speaks with Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about the importance of hiring for personality and problem-solving abilities over pure technical skillset. Wachtel, who has been in the SaaS B2B tech industry for over 25 years, emphasizes the significance of personality when building teams, particularly in small, mid-to-senior level positions.
He explains that in smaller organizations, engineers are expected to solve problems and work collaboratively without the presence of numerous project managers or product owners. Wachtel also touches upon how AI is reshaping team size and composition, which may ultimately not lead to the end of SaaS.
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