Soft Skills Engineering
Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
Get every episode summarized
Each time Soft Skills Engineering publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Episodes (512)
Episode 361: Get git and non-tech ramping up
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 360: Mixing up names and improving without feedback
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 359: Competition and awkward in person
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 358: Sticky Note Scandal and startup appeal
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 357: Waiting to be paid and survivor's guilt
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 356: Ummmmmmmmm and failed spikes
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 355: Driving kids instead of team and jk i quit
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 354: Good at circuits, bad at git and ghosts of team members past
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 353: Easter outage and unethical things
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 352: Exploding manager and I hate computers
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 351: Senior hoarding and layabout lead dev
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 350: Bombing a technical interview and background vetting
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 349: Performance review dissonance and being a remote manager
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 348: Making too many mistakes and low code career risk
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 347: New untrusting manager and crappy project management
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 346: Changing jobs with no raise and wrangling a cowboy coder
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 345: Head of Engineering vs writing code and Voluntary Severance
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 344: Showing impact without hiring and over over over engineering
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 343: Tech lead/manager and discouraging seniors
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 342: Losing my job to AI and bad review season
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 341: Offer rescinded and layoff stuff
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 340: Productivity lulls and code review showdown
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 339: Coworker double-dipping and building toxic community
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 338: I am the golden handcuffs and Staying in management
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 337: Helping the principal and Manager conflict
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 336: Roadmap roadkill and returning to office
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 335: Senior questions and overly optimistic
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 334: Personal brand and awkward silence
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 333: Unsure about management and I shall decline the offer
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 332: Layoff + baby survival and 18-year-old CS graduate
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 331: Prickly ticket and title downgrade
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 330: Mixed signals and not ready for senior
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 329: Falling behind and can't get a management job
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 328: Fear of sudden firing and reducing the lottery factor
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 327: Remote with onsite team and undercover refactor
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 326: Good perks, bad code and paper shredder suggestion box
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 325: Surprise PIP and salary leak
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 324: Understanding accents and mega soft skills
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 323: Shopping offers and returning equipment
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 322: Cover blown and no one cares
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 321: Politely, no and participation at scale
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 320: Hot and less hot and no privileges
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 319: Steve's babysitter and these uncertain times
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 318: Staff and part time dev
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 317: Process renegades and hiding my disgrunteledness
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 316: Skills reboot and quitting the perfect job
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 315: Poor feedback recipient and rubber duck
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 314: "That guy" and how to skip level
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 313: Parents are fighting and hat-removal
Soft Skills Engineering
Episode 312: Nit-picking and Promo raises
Soft Skills Engineering