13. MeetUp with Luka Napotnik - Hiring & Beyond: Road to Productive Engineer

Luka Napotnik is VP of Engineering at Visionect.

He leads the engineering team building e-paper display solutions for digital signage, driving architectural decisions and keeping production running. He's been at Visionect for over 17 years and has sat through more interviews than most people have had hot dinners.

What to expect:

‍Luka will talk through what it actually takes to go from first interview to shipping real work in a team. He'll share what he looks for when hiring (and what kills a candidate's chances), what good onboarding looks like in practice, and how AI is changing the day-to-day reality of working as a developer. He'll also tackle the question a lot of junior devs are quietly worrying about: is there still a place for them in the industry? Bring your questions.