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Soft Skills Engineering

Soft Skills Engineering

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.

Jamison Dance and Dave Smith

533 episodesEN

Show overview

Soft Skills Engineering has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 533 episodes. That works out to roughly 270 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 34 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 39 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Jamison Dance and Dave Smith.

Episodes
533
Running
2016–2026 · 10y
Median length
31 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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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Episode 532: My new company is an absolute mess and should I get an English-speaking job as a Japanese engineer?

Sep 28, 202631 min

Episode 531: Shallow feedback and my coworker is a huge sloperator

Sep 21, 202633 min

Episode 530: Product engineering and why does my team never challenge my ideas?

Sep 14, 202635 min

Episode 529: Zoom calls on my open floor plan and laconic staff engineer

Sep 7, 202634 min

Episode 528: Sleepy family software business and leaving after an acquisition

Aug 31, 202634 min

Episode 527: I lost my job after 10 years and am I too old to switch to a security career?

Aug 24, 202637 min

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

Aug 17, 202632 min

Episode 525: How do I save my company of 500 people and my new company is insane with AI

Aug 10, 202628 min

Episode 524: My CTO AI-codes big piles of slop and early mornings, late meetings

Aug 3, 202632 min

Episode 523: (Rerun of 331) Prickly ticket and title downgrade

Jul 27, 202633 min

Episode 522: I stayed too long at my first job and should I get a masters degree

Jul 20, 202628 min

Episode 521: negotiating . . . now? and doing good work is not enough for promotion?

Jul 13, 202631 min

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

Jul 6, 202640 min

Episode 519: Why does my team not have a tech lead and rumors!

Jun 29, 202633 min

Episode 518: stuck at startup and is my employer mistreating me because I'm on a visa?

Jun 22, 202632 min

Episode 517: Is it good for my career to work at a SaaS company and why am I being asked to manage two teams?

Jun 15, 202632 min

Episode 516: Not a baby and my product manager doesn't know the product

Jun 8, 202636 min

Episode 515: My junior team member won't listen to me and will I be the dumbest employee at a quantum computer company?

Jun 1, 202635 min

Episode 514: Trust issues and underperformers and my coworker resents me for being faster

May 25, 202638 min

Episode 513: Forgotten employee and what skills actually matter in the AI world

May 18, 202636 min
2016 Jamison Dance and Dave Smith