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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.

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Episódios

539 episódios

  1. Episode 538: toxic manager or low impact project and over-staffed? 30:54
  2. Episode 537: Is my ADHD affecting my work and my startup got acquired 34:04
  3. Episode 536: Mentoring and how to help my team not lose their soul to AI? 31:00
  4. Episode 535: Manager externalities and should I fight stupid processes 34:29
  5. Episode 534: I'm so bad at my job and I've inherited a huge slop pile 34:44
  6. Episode 533: I'm drowning in AI slop from lazy coworkers 33:13
  7. Episode 532: My new company is an absolute mess and should I get an English-speaking job as a Japanese engineer? 31:13
  8. Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator 33:38
  9. Episode 530: Product engineering and why does my team never challenge my ideas? 35:43
  10. Episode 529: Zoom calls on my open floor plan and laconic staff engineer 34:11
  11. Episode 528: Sleepy family software business and leaving after an acquisition 34:00
  12. Episode 527: I lost my job after 10 years and am I too old to switch to a security career? 37:30
  13. Episode 526: Why can't I get promoted so quickly after my last promotion and I got hired as a software engineer but ended up doing ops 32:38
  14. Episode 525: How do I save my company of 500 people and my new company is insane with AI 28:51
  15. Episode 524: My CTO AI-codes big piles of slop and early mornings, late meetings 32:04
  16. Episode 523: (Rerun of 331) Prickly ticket and title downgrade 33:03
  17. Episode 522: I stayed too long at my first job and should I get a masters degree 28:41
  18. Episode 521: negotiating . . . now? and doing good work is not enough for promotion? 31:10
  19. Episode 520: I came back to my former team and was shocked by AI and my team does not care at ALL about the code 40:27
  20. Episode 519: Why does my team not have a tech lead and rumors! 33:51
  21. Episode 518: stuck at startup and is my employer mistreating me because I'm on a visa? 32:59
  22. Episode 517: Is it good for my career to work at a SaaS company and why am I being asked to manage two teams? 32:04
  23. Episode 516: Not a baby and my product manager doesn't know the product 36:51
  24. Episode 515: My junior team member won't listen to me and will I be the dumbest employee at a quantum computer company? 35:19
  25. Episode 514: Trust issues and underperformers and my coworker resents me for being faster 38:14
  26. Episode 513: Forgotten employee and what skills actually matter in the AI world 36:55
  27. Episode 512: Can non-engineers really contribute code with AI and not sharing 42:30
  28. Episode 511: Should I take a temporary management position and performance-based bonuses 35:06
  29. Episode 510: Old and behind and how do I hang on for the last few years until retirement? 33:58
  30. Episode 509: I hate AI software dev, so should I become a manager and leading, not doing 36:09
  31. Episode 508: My company is an unethical spammer and my coworkers take so much sick time 32:57
  32. Episode 507: I got fired unexpectedly and breadth and depth 33:15
  33. Episode 506: I hate my job with AI and my team-mate thinks I suck 40:48
  34. Episode 505: Called to the principal's office and my team leads are super dogmatic 45:53
  35. Episode 504: Should I quit my AI job before my first day and professional button-clicker 32:15
  36. Episode 503: Hardware is hard and my PMs are pushing AI slop code 36:30
  37. Episode 502: Management keeps leaving and I hate using AI to code 41:19
  38. Episode 501: Vibecoding CEO and doing to teaching 29:17
  39. Episode 500: Am I the only one not getting raises and firing my whole team 36:15
  40. Episode 499: Should I quit my solo dev job with a sports team and senile seniors 33:11
  41. Episode 498: Testing in big corporations and how to get my first management job 31:52
  42. Episode 497: Patronizing perf reviews and can't get anything done as a tech lead 27:52
  43. Episode 496: Passing non-technical interviews and my internship with only other interns 26:48
  44. Episode 495: What to do when my boss quits and moving to Romania? 32:14
  45. Episode 494: Am I interviewing all wrong and leaving old team chats 26:02
  46. Episode 493: My boss one-ups my negativity and football engineering 21:01
  47. Episode 492: Fresh grads and startups or the goog 33:30
  48. Episode 491: Re-arranging deck chairs on the Titantic and my boss leaks private info 36:48
  49. Episode 490: How do I break into software dev from QA automation and underselling 26:14
  50. Episode 489: Ethical dilemma for a gambling app dev and ethical employers 34:57