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 229: Other people's code and moving into product management
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Episode 228: Unpaid team lead and banking hours
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Episode 227: Junior expectations and manager flakiness
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Episode 226: Declining job offers and being the outside hire
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Episode 225: Stuck on the ladder and can't say no
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Episode 224: Bad review from conflicted boss and questioning my career choices
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Episode 223: Feedback rage and making up for lost time
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Episode 222: Cowboy CTO and underpaid after promotion
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Episode 221: Current boss reference and getting paid to do nothing
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Episode 220: Premature leadership push and credit and status
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Episode 219: Remote crickets and Manager Careering
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Episode 218: Referral underperforming and take a tech lead role
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Episode 217: Quitting words and double COVID internship
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Episode 216: One-on-ones and inter-team power struggles
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Episode 215: Many jobs in one and junior git stickler
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Episode 214: Jumping ship and saying "I can't"
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Episode 213: Interviewing your future boss and screwed by private equity
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Episode 212: Turnover and self-inflicted complexity
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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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