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.
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Episodes (512)
Episode 311: (rerun of 207) Unclear career goals and garbage code
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Episode 310: Flip flop and architecture astronaut
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Episode 309: Missing boss support and new manager, who dis
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Episode 308: FAANG to startup and Google interview prep
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Episode 307: Side hustle or new job and tell me when you're stuck
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Episode 306: Sabbaticals and betray my team
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Episode 305: About that raise and *you're* not fired
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Episode 304: My subordinate is smarter than me and confused in meetings
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Episode 303: Should I stop coding and off to the field
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Episode 302: Bad boss movies and well-written emails
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Episode 301: I forced the framework and product stealing credit
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Episode 300: Manager move and cultural or personal
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Episode 299: Neophyte estimates and forced framework
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Episode 298: Thanks, and goodbye and fessing up
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Episode 297: Flat decisions and pointy-haired boss
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Episode 296: Low performer and frantic manager
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Episode 295: Underleveled at FAANG and lazy tech lead
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Episode 294: Unqualified internal applicant and speculative specs
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Episode 293: Moving TOO fast and following my manager
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Episode 292: Haunted by former co-worker and awkward manager endorsement
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Episode 291: Hyper-productive team lead and hyper-unproductive senior engineer
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Episode 290: Past offers and from QA to PM
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Episode 289: Sharing wisdom nicely and too many raises?
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Episode 288: Too excited about learning and furious boss when quitting
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Episode 287: Informal favoritism and post-hoc finger pointing
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Episode 286: I don't care about borkchain and morning procrastination?
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Episode 285: Staying technical as a manager and skill over seniority
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Episode 284: Slow mentee ramp-up and quit before new job?
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Episode 283: Jealousy and burnout
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Episode 282: Setting boundaries late and junior joy
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Episode 281: Contractor is sus and too much job hopping?
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Episode 280: Async communication and how to quit not nicely
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Episode 279: (Rerun of 220) Premature leadership push and credit and status
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Episode 278: PM to engineer and pressure to stay after quitting
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Episode 277: Super long code reviews and replacement laptop
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Episode 276: Startup or big company and negotiating your exit?
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Episode 275: Take-home tests and doing my own recruiting
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Episode 274: Announcing resignation too early and why are my ideas rejected?
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Episode 273: Influencing people and getting a raise in a flat org
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Episode 272: Consistent or shiny
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Episode 271: Too quiet and quitting too much?
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Episode 270 (rerun of 227): Junior expectations and manager flakiness
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Episode 269: A bad product and running the meter down
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Episode 268: Title inflation and solo remote engineer
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Episode 267: Cheap promotion raise and live coding blues
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Episode 266: Switching tech stacks and awkward zoom silence
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Episode 265 (rerun of 216): One-on-ones and inter-team power struggles
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Episode 264: Finger pointing and getting recognition
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Episode 263: Why am I bored and ver-boss-ity
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Episode 262: I'm too popular and too much turnover
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