# S5E17 Shobana Radhakrishnan | Blameless Post-Mortems, Google TV, & Engineering Leadership

- Show: [Being an Engineer](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer)
- Published: 2024-04-26
- Length: 48m
- Episode: 17
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders
- Listen: https://teampipeline.us/blameless-post-mortems/

## Summary

Shobana Radhakrishnan, Senior Director of Engineering at Google TV, discusses her career journey through tech giants like Netflix, Roku, and Yahoo, focusing on engineering leadership and diversity. She details the architectural challenges of building Google TV's recommendation engine, balancing user data with content provider inputs to create personalized interfaces. Radhakrishnan emphasizes the importance of blameless post-mortems, psychological safety, and proactive communication to manage risk and accelerate engineering productivity in large organizations.

## Chapters

- [0:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=5) Introduction and Career Overview
- [2:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=165) Pivotal Leadership Moments at Yahoo and Netflix
- [7:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=448) Balancing Creative Requirements and Engineering Architecture
- [10:43](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=643) Building Google TV's Recommendation Engine
- [17:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=1038) Fostering Blameless Culture and Psychological Safety
- [21:20](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=1280) Personal Mistakes and Career Lessons
- [25:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=1532) Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in STEM
- [36:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2024-04-26-s5e17-shobana-radhakrishnan-blameless-post-mortems-google-tv-engineering-leaders#t=2197) Accelerating Engineering Productivity and Communication

## Topics

- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- Google TV (product)
- Netflix (company)
- Roku (company)
- Yahoo (company)
- Symantec (company)
- YouTube (product)
- Amazon Prime (product)
- IMDB (product)

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