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.
Episodes (530)
Episode 429: Should I quit my job for free hoodies and manager to IC
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Episode 428: Interim tech lead and asking for a raise when a peer leaves
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Episode 427: Under to over-employed and wibbly wobbly timey wimey
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Episode 426: I got too many promotions and I have anxiety about getting fired
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Episode 425: Org chart bait and switch and ole' reliable
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Episode 424: Bragging without ego and how to predict layoffs
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Episode 423: freedom from deadlines and Actual firefighting to software firefigh...
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Episode 422: Moving in to big tech and building support
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Episode 421: Hitting the level cap and getting credit for behind-the-scenes work
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Episode 420: New grad getting boring work and busy manager
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Episode 419: Yoda or Han Solo and I swear I'm senior
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Episode 418: Should I "rest and vest" and how do I avoid 3-hour agile meetings?
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Episode 417: Should I tell my boss I'm checked out and how do I deal with a PM w...
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Episode 416: My boss wants me to build dark patterns and getting promoted withou...
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Episode 415: I got a low raise and merging teams
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Episode 414: Hot-headed PM and leaving without downgrading
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Episode 413: Is my interview candidate cheating and my product owner is getting...
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Episode 412: Work-life-team balance and getting code-sniped
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Episode 411: We have a secret org chart and I'm a big fish in a little pond
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Episode 410: Guaranteed cost-of-living raises and my manager doesn't like me
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Episode 409: Fancy title to IC and CRUD is crud
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Episode 408: Terrible retrospectives and "hard to work with"
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Episode 407: I'm too territorial and should I quiet quit?
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Episode 406: Acquired taste and limited mentorship
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Episode 405: Scaled agile pain and top-heavy team
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Episode 404: Interview comedy and talking pay while new
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Episode 403: Massaging the software and career never-never-land
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Episode 402: It's all on fire and title inflation
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Episode 401: I AM the superstar and pro-rated raise
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Episode 400: Underperforming intern and upskilling
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Episode 399: Higher paid than my boss and crossing over to management
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Episode 398: Tech lead for contractors and how to detach my ego from my work
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Episode 397: Skunkworks and too much work/life balance
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Episode 396: Enthusiastic scope creep and human search engine
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Episode 395: Super star teammate and Getting better with no financial incentives
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Episode 394: Scrum master, weapons master and minimum tenure to not look bad
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Episode 393: Soft skills for interns and intern to QA
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Episode 392: Old code and choosing my annual reviewers
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Episode 391: Post-staff and direct or a jerk
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Episode 390: Fixing typos and Cassandra
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Episode 389: Sleepy and bureaucracy
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Episode 388: Money not compliments and principal engineer coding guidelines
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Episode 387: No juniors and manager forced to return to office
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Episode 386: Stuck with toil and how to get a dev job as a self-taught career-sw...
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Episode 385: Attention to detail and sabbatical
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Episode 384: EM missing code and non-location pay
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Episode 383: In the trenches without writing code and how to close a social skil...
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Episode 382: Mentors for managers and mob programming
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Episode 381: Doing less and bad reference
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Episode 380: Overruled by non-technical manager and describing technical stuff t...
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