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
- 2024-11-18 17:49
- last episode published
- 2024-11-18 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
- 437
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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... | |
| 2024-10-14 |
Episode 430: Should I quit this job I'm underqualified for and honestly torpedoed my promo chances In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I work at a large tech company, been there for about two years at the time of writing this question. I got in by sheer luck since I’ve interviewed at many teams in this company before f... |
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| 2024-10-07 |
Episode 429: Should I quit my job for free hoodies and manager to IC In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I have a job I mostly enjoy, with a super flexible schedule and the freedom to work from anywhere. I learn a lot, and the engineers here are top-notch. However… the pay is only ok, no b... |
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| 2024-09-30 |
Episode 428: Interim tech lead and asking for a raise when a peer leaves In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Listener Muszyn asks, I have been working as a SWE for almost two years. My team lead was recently fired leaving me as the most senior junior developer on the team of 4. I was give... |
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| 2024-09-23 |
Episode 427: Under to over-employed and wibbly wobbly timey wimey In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi! I enjoy your podcast a lot, been listening to it almost since the beginning before I even started to work in tech :-) I’d like to keep this one anonymous, though. I’ve been wor... |
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| 2024-09-16 |
Episode 426: I got too many promotions and I have anxiety about getting fired In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Long time listener, first time question asker. I love the show, thank you for all the advices :) I’ve been working in one of the FAANGs for around 3 years now. I joined the company... |