Nikita Gupta

Co-founder & CTO, Symba · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nikita Gupta co-founded Symba, an enterprise SaaS platform that automates and manages internship programs and early-career talent operations. A Cornell University computer science graduate and former software engineer at Apple and Bank of America, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Enterprise Technology.

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Insight

Engineers only build with empathy when product teams over-communicate value

“Over communication is really important as to why a feature needs to be developed, and it has to be there because only when the engineers understand the value of the product that they're building, then they will be able to build it with empathy and understand w…”

Nikita Gupta Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 11:26 Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023

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Simba's customer success team occasionally took on product management roles

“We've actually had a lot of our team members wear multiple hats. So even our customer success managers and head of customer success have also dipped into PM as well.”

Nikita Gupta Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 1:51 Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023

Disclosure

Simba's product leaders caused bottlenecks by treating engineering like a feature factory

“So, this happened because our product leaders were throwing requirements over the wall and treating our engineering team like a feature factory.”

Nikita Gupta Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 8:07 Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023

Insight

Let engineering alter designs early if scope exceeds the target delivery date

“The best part is, is like really early on when you're doing the designs and you're about to hand it off to engineering, get like a good sense of what that deadline would be. And then let the engineering team work with you to alter the designs if it's not fitti…”

Nikita Gupta Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 17:32 Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Product vs. Engineering: The surprising way to create alignment in 2023	Jul 11, 2023	14m

Nikita Gupta

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