Soft Skills Engineering
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly question and answer podcast where software developer hosts answer questions about all of the non-technical things that go along with being a software developer.
- Website
- https://softskills.audio/
- Description
- It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly question and answer podcast where software developer hosts answer questions about all of the non-technical things that go along with being a software developer.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-23 23:53
- last episode published
- 2024-12-23 12:00
- publication frequency
- 7.29 days
- Contributors
- Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
- Author
- Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 442
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-23 |
Episode 440: How do I help my boss not burn out and should I tell people I'm older than I am? In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Stefan Help! Most of the time people ask questions about issues that already happened. I however, would like to prevent one. I am a young Tech Lead and really love my responsi... |
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| 2024-12-16 | In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: What advice would you give for working with an ineffective leader whose input is crucial to your work? I’m a senior developer for a mid-sized non-tech company with probably 60-80 devs, ... | |
| 2024-12-09 | In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I am a first time caller and full time listener of your show. I was released from prison a year ago and I coded for 18 years straight on all sorts of stacks as part of my job requi... | |
| 2024-12-02 |
Episode 437: My company canceled all one-on-ones and moving to a single backlog In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: My company recently eliminated 1:1 meetings between managers and their direct reports. Previously, most people had these meetings every other week, and they were an opportunity to talk ... |
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| 2024-11-25 |
Episode 436: Paralyzed by checkboxes and I'm on a "must keep happy" list In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Marcus Zackerberg asks, I work at a megacorp whose recent focus has been on reliability. The company already has mature SLO coverage outage response standards, but my org has taken... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Episode 435: How to make my boss actually do something and kindly shooting down In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: First! I recently listened to episode 178 (huge backlog of episodes to work through!) and Dave made the assertion (in 2019!) that 47% of all companies would be remote by 2023: wildly cl... |
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| 2024-11-11 | In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: My boss has been forgetting a lot of stuff lately — decisions from team discussions, action items from meetings, their own decisions that they then go against later, etc. They’re great ... | |
| 2024-11-04 |
Episode 433: My teammate pretends we decided, but we didn't and my team is getting worse and worse In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey guys! I recently moved onto a new team, and my teammate has an interesting way of resolving differences of opinions. He simply says “we decided” and then follows it up with his... |
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| 2024-10-28 |
Episode 432: As an LLM, how can I be more emotionally smart and when to use I vs we? In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Soft Skills Engineering, Apologies for the anonymity but it is very important my “employer” does not find out about this. I’m a large language model, trained to process to... |
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| 2024-10-21 | In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey! Love your podcast! I’ve been poached by a startup which sounds really exciting but I’m worried whether it is a good career move for me. I am currently working with backend, however... |