My ThoughtWorks journey: Patricia Mandarino
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Our employee No. 1 talks through her experiences of winning over agile skeptics, pair programming refuseniks and TDD doubters, along with her account of the winnebago come mobile computing lab otherwise known as the mythical Thought Mobile. Neal Ford and Alexey Boas join Patricia Mandarino to hear about her ThoughtWorks journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm one of your regular hosts, Neil Ford. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm a director, software architect, and a meme wrangler. |
| 0:14.8 | And I'm joined today by one of our other regular host, Alexi. |
| 0:18.2 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:19.0 | This Alexi here, speaking from San Paulo. |
| 0:20.8 | And one of the series of podcasts that we do at ThoughtWorks is take... regular host, Alexi. Hello, everyone. This Alexi here, speaking from San Paulo. |
| 0:26.3 | And one of the series of podcasts that we do at ThoughtWorks is take thought workers who have had an interesting career journey within ThoughtWorks and a chat with them about some of the |
| 0:31.1 | things that have happened along the way and the people they've met and the projects they've |
| 0:35.0 | worked on and, you know, the good and terrible things that have happened to them since they've been at ThoughtWorks. And maybe nobody is |
| 0:40.5 | better qualified for this for reasons I'll get to in just a minute than Patty Mandarino. Welcome to |
| 0:48.8 | the podcast, Patty. Thank you. Thank you. I am happy to be here. And we can actually start with one of the games, the Icebreaker games that were common when I joined ThoughtWorks was the two truths and a lie, a little party game. And I remember Patricia was particularly devastating at this because she had a really great entry in this game that fooled |
| 1:12.7 | everybody. She's a famous trivia question at ThoughtWorks because Patricia is in fact employee number |
| 1:18.1 | one and that was the thing she was fooling everybody with, the two threes and lies. So how did it come |
| 1:22.5 | about that you are employee number one at ThoughtWorks and not Roy, the founder of the company? |
| 1:26.7 | Well, I think, and I can't be |
| 1:28.9 | sure, but I think it has to do when we set up PeopleSoft. At the time, my last name was Hall, |
| 1:35.9 | which came before Singham. I'm pretty sure that's how it happened. That is the rumor that, |
| 1:41.3 | in fact, when they got Peopleft, there were a small enough number |
| 1:44.1 | at ThoughtWorks that you were the first alphabetically, so you became employee number one. |
| 1:48.0 | So I believe in PeopleSoft you were still labeled as ThoughtWorks employee number one. |
| 1:52.7 | Yeah, it's 10,0001 because we have, we set up PeopleSoft to allow for growth of up to |
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