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Guest Post, Hiring, Interviews, SMR, Tech, Women In Tech | May 22, 2023 | 2 min read

Samantha Burnham

Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do? What’s your job role?  

Right now, I’m the Product Manager for Tesco’s UK recruitment platform. In the coming  months I’ll bounce between our current platform and a new platform that’s being developed  with my colleagues as a global solution and ultimately, I’ll be Product Managing that platform when the current one is sunsetted.  

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Careers, Guest Post, Hiring, Interviews, Tech | May 22, 2023 | 3 min read

Bhavik Sutha

Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do? What’s your job role?

I’m an Electronics Engineer by degree and a Software Engineer by profession. I’m currently a Software Development Manager at Tesco in the payments platform. Having spent 20 years in various industries like hospitality, gaming, payments and now retail, I’ve faced and enjoyed many technical and management challenges. These include everything from hiring and team upskilling to managing the balance between technical excellence and value expectations.

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“It was a completely lucky occurrence.” How one developer found a new team at Silicon Milkroundabout

Interviews, SMR | October 22, 2019 | 5 min read

After each edition of Silicon Milkroundabout lots of people leave knowing they’re about to start the next phase in their career and we wanted to shine a light on some of these individual stories . We’ve been catching up with the designers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, product specialists and all-round legends that came to our most recent edition to get their take on how to get the most out of the event.

Read on for our chat with Peyman Owladi, a Senior Developer who struck up a conversation with Bagboard at SMRapril19, before going on to accept an offer to join their engineering team.

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Q&A with Cachetejack

Interviews | October 9, 2019 | 2 min read

Spanish illustration duo Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul create fresh and unique work full of colour, energy, humour and irony in a variety of different mediums under the name Cachetejack. They produced a series of illustrations to promote #SMRnov19 and the first edition of our US sister-event, The Round NYC.

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