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

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

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 10, 202628 min

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hey Dave and Jamison, First, I love your show and it has now been part of my Monday evening routine for many years to listen to your podcast while cooking dinner. I recently joined a mid-sized software company (500 people) as a senior data engineer. The salary is a significant bump from my previous job and I really like the team on a personal level. Three months after I joined, the company laid off half its employees and announced a strategic pivot away from their previous core...

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It takes more than getting into a good old-fashioned programming language fight to be a great software engineer. This is episode 525 of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast, where I'm your host, Jameson Dance. I'm your host, Dave Smith.

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Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice show about all the non-technical things that go into the technical field of software development, like coming up with how to craft the perfect insult to somebody who likes a different programming language than you. It's been kicking off a little bit on Twitter the last couple weeks and it's good to see its back.

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Is this the Rust thing? What is this? Yeah, probably. It's like systems languages and yeah. We haven't moved past that. Programming languages may not matter for the software you write, but they do matter for the drama and the fights you start still. Yeah, that becomes like this niche where programming

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