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September 21, 2025

Branch.io's VP of Engineering on Burnout, Broken Hiring, and AI Hype

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What if your best engineer is quietly burning out? What if your interview process is pushing great candidates away? And what if AI tools are creating developers who skip the fundamentals?

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Josh Anderson

Field CTO, Revelo

Josh Anderson is Revelo's Field CTO and the host of Tech Teams Today. He is also CTO at Reclaim and co-hosts The Meta-Cast podcast, and he has spent his career building and leading engineering teams.

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What if your best engineer is quietly burning out?
What if your interview process is pushing great candidates away?
And what if AI tools are creating developers who skip the fundamentals?

In this episode of Tech Teams Today, we’re joined by Ivan Herndon, VP of Engineering at Branch, for a frank conversations about the state of engineering leadership.

Ivan shares hard-earned insights on:
- How high performers get overworked — and how to stop it
- Where junior devs are slipping through the cracks with AI
- What “unpaid interviews” say about your hiring process
- Why “leaders eat last” might be the wrong mindset entirely
- And how to think like a product engineer (not just a coder)

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