Hiring, Culture and AI with Payslip CEO Fidelma McGuirk

A founder level conversation on building, scaling and retaining high performing tech teams.

In this episode of The Talent Fix, Barry Prost sits down with Fidelma McGuirk, Founder and CEO of Payslip, the global payroll automation platform built from Westport and scaling across Ireland, Spain and Bulgaria.

Fidelma has over 20 years of international leadership experience and has built teams across more than 25 countries. In this conversation, she breaks down what most CEOs get wrong about hiring, culture and the impact of AI on work.

We cover:

• Why 58 percent of EU companies still struggle to hire ICT and engineering talent
• How Payslip attracts developers out of big banks
• Why offices by the sea are part of their culture strategy
• Building teams across Ireland, Spain and Bulgaria
• Why she still personally runs CEO induction every month
• How the “licence to innovate” rule drives ownership and better ideas
• Culture fit in a hybrid world
• Why AI replaces tasks not great people
• How AI tools are changing project management and engineering workflows
• The future of work in tech and fintech

Fidelma also shares the real challenges behind hiring in Ireland, how pandemic risk aversion changed developer behaviour, and why cluster markets like Barcelona still outperform for certain roles.

If you are a CEO, founder or HR leader trying to hire and retain high impact talent in fintech or tech, this episode is full of practical insights you can use immediately.

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