In this episode, Pete chats to Farzana, Farooq and John about Autotrader's Ethnicity Network. They talk through the journey the network has been on since its formation in 2018.This includes how the network plays a key a role in celebrating the variety of cultures at Autotrader, facilitating impactful discussions, and key behaviours for allies showing up for the community.
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Life as in-house lawyers at a tech company
In this episode, Callum chats with Autotrader’s legal team about their journeys into law, the challenges they face, and what it’s like working in-house versus private practice.
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Building prostate cancer awareness in the workplace
June marks Mens Health Month, an important time to to share education and awareness about men's health issues.On this episode of Roadmap, Pete is joined by Richard Penrith and Tim Woodman (Previously a GP and now Medical Director for Policy and Cancer Services at Bupa). They have an open chat about prostate cancer, including the testing and screening process, Richard's experiences, as well as testing and treatment and the support Bupa can offer.You can find out more information on the BUPA and Prostate Cancer UK website:https://www.bupa.co.uk/health-information/cancer/prostate-cancerhttps://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/risk-and-symptoms/about-prostate-cancer
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Java @ 30: The Birthday Episode
On this episode of Roadmap, we're celebrating Java's 30th Birthday with a one-off birthday special! Pete is joined by Chris and Karl to talk about the origins of Java back in 1995 and the impact the programming language has had throughout the past three decades. They chat through how Java code has moved with us at Autotrader through website re-writes, moving to the cloud, and running over 750 microservices, as well as if they think Java will still be around in another 30 years.
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Turning Passion into Product with the Palm Tree App
On this week's episode, Rach speaks to Brandon, Senior Android Engineer here at Autotrader about his journey of building his own app, Palm tree, an app to help people find black-owned businesses local to them.Brandon chats through his experiences from launching an app and learning a new programming language to do so. He delves into how it's made him a better developer, balancing the day job with building a business and the importance of following your dreams and not giving up.Check out the app on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/palm-tree-black-owned/id6443724388Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lambostudio.palmtree&pcampaignid=web_share
Roadmap brings together passionate people who build products to have meaningful conversations about topics which matter to them.
If you're in product, engineering, design, or you simply have an interest in tech, we hope you'll find these conversations useful.
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