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 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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Episode 261: Anxious about work and senior imposter
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Episode 260: Pay cut after hired and new job ramp-up
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Episode 259: Moving up to meetings and will remote work stay a thing?
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Episode 258: Addicted to scrolling and underpaid with equity
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Episode 257: Oops I didn't negotiate and really another raise question
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Episode 256: No degree ceiling and reverse whippersnappers
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Episode 255: Only positive feedback and overworked and siloed
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Episode 254: Code makes my body hurt and level madness
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Episode 253: Not coding after 2 years and fake data scientists
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Episode 252: Impossible documentation and unexcited coworkers
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Episode 251: Working with real live developers and the royal we?
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Episode 250: The management track and active listening
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Episode 249: Settling the Wild West and credit for self-study
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Episode 248: Non-private slack channels and expectations
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Episode 247: Estimates and hotdesking
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Episode 246: Humanitarian salary conundrum and family benefits
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Episode 245: Sweating the small stuff and quit my first job?
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Episode 244: Quitting telephone and recommendontion
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Episode 243: Saying no and conference
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Episode 242 (Episode 131 re-run): Stinky feet and high salary expectation
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Episode 241 (Rerun of 184): Indispensable and IT cold war
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Episode 240: Under-leveled in the big leagues and pushing back
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Episode 239: Hustle and patents and toxicity
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Episode 238: Naughty team and quitting after 2 weeks
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Episode 237: Salary vs tech stack and how to quit an ad agency
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Episode 236: Making mistakes and Lowball offer
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Episode 235: Bus factors and toxic time bomb
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Episode 234: Job hopping and untenable counter-offers
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Episode 233: Manual unit testing and WFH demotivation
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Episode 232: "Junior" developer and NDA'd
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Episode 231: Freedom for me not for thee and optimizing for growth
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Episode 230: Not seeking promotion and taking code
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