Soft Skills Engineering
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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:Nearly every time certain developers on the team want to address technical debt, they end up just adding more technical debt. Of course, after one round of addressing technical
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I am a senior software engineer in a big tech/faang company and this week is my first ever on call rotation. My team is doing a lot of CI work, monitoring pipelines and support
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:Hey, I am a web developer getting bored of the regular development work. I am interested in finance and the monetary system and due to the overlap of finance and engineering I f
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:A listener named Dakota asks,I’m a UX designer, and I’m constantly looking for growth opportunities. I’m having trouble finding mentors to help challenge me, as every time
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I’m a manager on a Product team. I’ve been asked by upper management to measure “story points completed per developer per sprint” and display the results publicly each sprint to
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:Greetings! I work at a research company with ~500 engineers and scientists. My company started promoting this new portal they setup that is like a private linkedin. You can fill
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I’ve been a developer for about 1.5 years. I work for a large consultancy. we provide services to big clients. I’m working on a front-end codebase that has been through three co
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:A listener named Scot asks,A new architect was hired at my company 6 months ago. I’m an engineer one rung lower on the hierarchy and have been here for 3.5 years. He hasn’
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I struggle with behavioral interviews. I’ve gotten a little bit better as I’ve done more interviews, but it’s still a major pain point for me.I have some common behavioral
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:Hello, long time listener first time question asker. I work for a medium sized tech company and I recently moved teams. Right now my old team is attempting to refactor a bunch o
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:A listener named Steven says,Long-time listener of the podcast here—it always brings me so much joy!Should I prioritize title over salary?I’m currently based i
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I am a mid level engineer overleveled as a senior engineer in a FAANG company. I got super lucky landing this high paying remote job, but dang… I did underestimate the expectati
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:A listener named Matthias (mah-TEA-as) asks,In episode 444 you’re talking about the problems when hiring in the age of AI. I’m a manager who’s trying to hire right now and
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:A listener named Kevin asks,Hey, found the show and really enjoy it! Been listening from the beginning and have noticed that one of the pieces of advice given is that you
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:After a decade as a Senior front-end engineer in companies stuck in legacy ways of working—paying lip service to true agility while clinging to control-heavy, waterfall practice
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I think my team’s PM might hate me. Hate is exaggerating, but they often will give public praise to other members of my team on work they’ve done, and seem to be pretty friendly
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I would like your advice on how I can improve my communication skills. I realize that practicing is usually the best way, but I am interested in taking online courses or learnin
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:I’m currently in the interviewing pipeline for an engineering position at a fairly large healthcare company. In light of the recent events surrounding UnitedHealthcare, there’s
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:StefanHelp! 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
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 60-8
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 j
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
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 h
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: w
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’r
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