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

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

B1IntermediateJuly 27, 202633 min

This is a rerun of episode 331. In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Listener ninjamonkey says, I am a new grad who is half a year into the role now at a very large company. Recently, a senior engineer on my team asked me to create a ticket for an infra team for a problem with a service. I provided logs and steps to reproduce the issue and did a health check before submitting. Right after, the manager of the team put me into a group chat with their...

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Good morning, good evening, good night, good midnight. This is the Soft Skills Engineering Podcast. I'm Jameson Dance, and we are bringing you a rerun from the distant past of 2022.

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Dave and I have been out on a snipe hunt, but we will be back next week with a new episode. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this deep cut from our archives. It takes more than keeping your code dry.

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I mean, really dry. I mean, really, really incredibly dry to be a great software engineer. This is episode 331 of the Soft Skills Engineering Podcast.

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