Soft Skills Engineering

Technology Podcasts

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.

Episodes

Episode 536: Mentoring and how to help my team not lose their soul to AI?

Episode 535: Manager externalities and should I fight stupid processes

Episode 534: I'm so bad at my job and I've inherited a huge slop pile

Episode 533: I'm drowning in AI slop from lazy coworkers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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