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Episode 250: The management track and active listening 28:01

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I’m a Tech Lead at a decent sized corporation. If I want to grow towards a promotion my options are a more people management track towards Engineering Lead (basically a TL who also manages 1-2 other TLs) or a more technical track towards Staff TL. Where I’m struggling is I don’t kn…

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Episode 249: Settling the Wild West and credit for self-study 28:57

8d ago28:57

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I recently took over to manage development at a small company that has been around for a few decades. We just wrapped up a four year effort to move to a more modern web stack. The development style before my new position is best described as ‘Wild West’. My direct boss’s philosophy…

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Episode 248: Non-private slack channels and expectations 31:28

17d ago31:28

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions Our engineering manager keeps sneaking/creeping on our private slack channels. As an admin of the workspace he can join any private slack channel without being invited. I feel like this is an unacceptable behavior. What should I do?Should I just reach out to him and ask him not to …

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Episode 247: Estimates and hotdesking 32:24

25d ago32:24

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions What is your opinion about estimates. Is it a good practice? Are they helpful or just a guess? Should we estimate in story points or hours? How can we improve our estimation skills to be more accurate?I really don’t like estimating.I don’t think it is a good practice because we alm…

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Episode 246: Humanitarian salary conundrum and family benefits 28:16

1M ago28:16

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I listen to the show while I’m working out and wanted you to know I’ve almost dropped the weight on myself multiple times when one of you cracks a funny joke (which is often, I’m learning to be more careful)😂. I work for a growing startup as a dev manager. Hiring has proven to be o…

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Episode 245: Sweating the small stuff and quit my first job? 29:24

1M ago29:24

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions Hello soft skills audio, love the show and your great advice. My question is how do I stop sweating the small stuff. I have one colleague who either can’t spell, or types so fast the words make no sense and doesn’t correct the mistakes. Emails, comments in code, comments in PRs, pr…

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Episode 244: Quitting telephone and recommendontion 28:43

2M ago28:43

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions My coworker Alice reached out to me in confidence to say that another coworker, Blake, is leaving in about a month. Blake told Alice in confidence that they intend to put in their two-weeks notice next week. Making things better, Blake is our entire ops team (<3 bus factor of 1) an…

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Episode 243: Saying no and conference 21:59

2M ago21:59

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions Quite often my manager writes me in the morning: hey, can you help the team with this thing? And sometimes it happens so that I know no more than “the team” about the thing, and actually there’s no way in the world I can help them, but everyone assumes that I am some kind of expert…

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Episode 242 (Episode 131 re-run): Stinky feet and high salary expectation 25:00

2M ago25:00

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It’s one more re-run before we are back with new stuff! Enjoy this episode from November 2018, back when Tiger King didn’t yet exist. In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I sit in a desk with 3 other people. One of those people does a great job of personal hygiene…the other two not so much. I have dropped a couple of …

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Episode 241 (Rerun of 184): Indispensable and IT cold war 33:58

2M ago33:58

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions How do you quit when you’re indispensable to the team? I am the lead developer at a startup. I have a small team of 3 developers under me. I am essentially the “person who wrote all the code”. I have an offer from another startup for more money and more percentages of the company a…

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Episode 240: Under-leveled in the big leagues and pushing back 34:38

3M ago34:38

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I became a software engineer 4 years ago after graduating from a bootcamp. I then worked a few software jobs in middle America. About a year and a half ago, I got a job in a well know tech start up and moved to a big city with heavy software/tech presence. Before I moved, I suspect…

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Episode 239: Hustle and patents and toxicity 26:14

3M ago26:14

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions Really love the podcast. Keep it up!I’m in a senior role at a software company and have been here over 5 years. I have come up with a SaaS product idea after finding a problem in my company’s engineering process and started working on it. It solves a niche problem in general softwa…

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Episode 238: Naughty team and quitting after 2 weeks 31:41

3M ago31:41

31:41

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions A few years ago, my current company did a big no-no which turned into a scandal that made national headlines. When I was considering joining, I said it was important for me to feel ethically aligned with my work, and asked about how things had changed since The Incident. They told …

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Episode 237: Salary vs tech stack and how to quit an ad agency 24:49

3M ago24:49

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I am REALLY into music. I mostly get paid to listen to Spotify. With this in mind I decided to apply for a new job at a “globally leading audio technology company”. The job would be paying a lot more. About 30% more minimum based on the advertised salary range. However, I hate the …

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Episode 236: Making mistakes and Lowball offer 33:03

4M ago33:03

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions Can you talk about making mistakes at work? How do you handle it, how do you frame it when you talk about it, do you try to minimize or be honest about it, how soon is it to pretend nothing went wrong and you’re doing great, etc. Thanks! Hello there, Huge fan of the show here, I of…

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Episode 235: Bus factors and toxic time bomb 27:13

4M ago27:13

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions I work as an IC in a team which owns 3 very different and large parts of the system. Our team is 4 experienced engineers and 1 intern. Historically each person was assigned to a single part and, as you might expect, we have a bus factor problem. With this layout we’re making as muc…

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Episode 234: Job hopping and untenable counter-offers 29:25

4M ago29:25

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Questions How can I stay at a job for a long period of time? I’m on my second job after graduating and as I’m approaching my first year at this company I’m already thinking of moving somewhere else. A similar thing happened at my previous job where I stayed for around 15 months. I feel that …

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Episode 250: The management track and active listening 28:01

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Episode 249: Settling the Wild West and credit for self-study 28:57

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Episode 248: Non-private slack channels and expectations 31:28

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Episode 247: Estimates and hotdesking 32:24

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Episode 246: Humanitarian salary conundrum and family benefits 28:16

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Episode 245: Sweating the small stuff and quit my first job? 29:24

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Episode 244: Quitting telephone and recommendontion 28:43

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Episode 243: Saying no and conference 21:59

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Episode 242 (Episode 131 re-run): Stinky feet and high salary expectation 25:00

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Episode 241 (Rerun of 184): Indispensable and IT cold war 33:58

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Episode 240: Under-leveled in the big leagues and pushing back 34:38

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Episode 239: Hustle and patents and toxicity 26:14

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Episode 238: Naughty team and quitting after 2 weeks 31:41

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Episode 237: Salary vs tech stack and how to quit an ad agency 24:49

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Episode 236: Making mistakes and Lowball offer 33:03

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Episode 235: Bus factors and toxic time bomb 27:13

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Episode 234: Job hopping and untenable counter-offers 29:25

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