It takes more than great code
to be a great engineer.

Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers.

The show's hosts are experienced developers who answer your questions about topics like:

  • pay raises
  • hiring and firing developers
  • technical leadership
  • learning new technologies
  • quitting your job
  • getting promoted
  • code review etiquette
  • and much more...

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Episode 88: How To Dress For Interviews and Learning To Interview

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This week Jamison and Dave answer these questions:

  1. How do you dress for interviews? Full on informal beach bum? Smart casual? Formal suit tie?
  2. I’m a new developer and have been asked to interview incoming developers. How do I learn how to interview?

This is the NoRedInk interview process. This is the blog post Jamison likes on getting data out of the technical portion of the interview. This is a slightly pessimistic look at pitfalls in the standard interview process. Google wrote a great article about structured interviewing that might also be helpful.

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Episode 87: Pushover Coworkers and Productivity Metrics

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This week Jamison and Dave answer these questions:

  1. My peers give up and say “have it your way” whenever we have technical discussions. How do I get them to be more vocal about their opinions?
  2. I like the idea of measuring things, but metrics seem easy to game. How do I effectively measure team and personal productivity?

Jamison cites this tweet and this blog post about examining your own productivity.

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Episode 86: Sharing Salaries and Offensive Words

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This week Jamison and Dave answer these questions:

  1. Could you (Jamison and Dave) share some salary information publicly? It would help to know how much others make.
  2. My boss uses an offensive word in technical discussions. How do I ask him to stop?