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

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

B1IntermediateJuly 13, 202631 min

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Dwill Ainghell asks, During the golden era of software development, it was commonly stated that you should always negotiate job offers. The argument was that the company has invested significant time and resources into you as a candidate and there is always some wiggle room for negotiations. A popular article / podcast by Patrick McKenzie likened it to doing something slightly uncomfortable like “reciting poetry while simultaneously standing on one foot” with almost no downside. (https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/how-to-negotiate-your-salary-package/) Does this still hold true...

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it takes more than using chipotle's support bot to write code when you hit your daily claw token limit to be a great engineer this is soft skills engineering episode 521 i'm your host dave smith i'm your host jameson dance soft skills engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software engineers who are creatively trying to get machines to write the machine code for the other

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machines to read and run what a world did chipotle ever fix that i heard about it i heard about it i heard about chipotle code but i mean guaranteed there's a thousand other ones out there that you could just steal from yeah yeah and i i think someone even created a github yeah yeah project where you could like just integrate it directly into your harness yep which is the kind of thing

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that you can say this is legally a joke and for demonstration purposes only yeah and don't ask me how i figured out if it worked or not right in space that would work i don't know how that works on Earth in Earth law. Yeah, that holds.

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