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 211: Biorhythm and coworker roommate
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Episode 210: Study time and caring less
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Episode 209: Glue and Covid ghost job
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Episode 208: Toe-stepper-on-er and high leverage work
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Episode 207: Unclear career goals and garbage code
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Episode 206: Micromanaging WFH and vaguely tech lead
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Episode 205: Old code outage and questions leaking
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Episode 204: Remote work and ghosting your employer
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Episode 203: Downturns and conflict
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Episode 202: Can't stand up and new team, new me
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Episode 201: Too soon for a raise and management, masters, maybe?
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Episode 200: Crazy work work stories
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Episode 199: Offshore team influence and time zone fun
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Episode 198: Stinky manager and VP overhaul
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Episode 197: Rambling co-worker and awkward resume leak
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Episode 196: "Offshore resources" and ageist layoffs
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Episode 195: Ad-hoc promotion and quitting a huge company with Charity Majors
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Episode 194: Leveling up through speaking and negativity
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Episode 193: Playing the field and paying for speaking
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Episode 192: Giving feedback and messaging a team change
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Episode 191: Overshadowed and demos and credit
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Episode 190: Disorganized startup and leveling up the team
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Episode 189: Building relationships and handling negative feedback with speical...
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Episode 188: Drama overload and agile ouroboroses
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Episode 187: Interview insanity and making up for lost time
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Episode 186: First job negotiation and am I a senior engineer?
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Episode 185: Fragile coworkers and soft demotion
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Episode 184: Indispensable and IT cold war
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Episode 183: Terrible boss code and peer-to-peer mentorship
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Episode 182: Lunch and switching to product management
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Episode 181: Blocked by back-end and tired of coding
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Episode 180: Inspiring attention to detail and moving
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Episode 179: Pushing preemptive promotion and de-motivated by promotion
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Episode 178: Procrastinating colleague and working remotely for an on-site compa...
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Episode 177: Work life vertigo and work life interviews
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Episode 176: Afraid to disappoint and tech co-founder advice
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Episode 175: Famous devs at conferences and becoming obsolete
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Episode 174: Bottleneck manager and how to tech lead
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Episode 173: Newbie burden and getting a 25% raise
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Episode 172: Contracting and American email etiquette
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Episode 171: Unwilling mentorship and tortoise vs hare DevOps
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Episode 170: Code rage and code review etiquette
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Episode 169: Conspiracy theories and flexible schedules
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Episode 168: Self-snooping and work from home jeopardy
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Episode 167: Foosball culture and giving feedback to geniuses
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Episode 166: Not the intern and fighting at work
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Episode 165: I don't play videogames and quarter-career burnout
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Episode 164: Fear of firing and disengaged teammates
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Episode 163: Sounding a warning and negative Glassdoor reviews
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Episode 162 (rerun of episode 113): Quitting Your First Job and Too Many Respons...
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