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Episode 528: Sleepy family software business and leaving after an acquisition
In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: A listener named “Will angel answer my question?” asks, Hi, I recently joined a new company about 1.5 months ago. It is the technology arm of a family-owned business group that has existed for over 30 years, providing technology services to all the other companies in the group. After a one-week onboarding, I was assigned to a team. After 2–3 days, I still had no tasks, so I asked a coworker to pair program with me so I could learn more about the processes and continue learning. The ta...
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It takes more than watching yet another presentation full of slides made by AI with absolutely no meaning and all fluff to be a great engineer. This is Soft Skills Engineering, Episode 528. I'm your host, Dave Smith.
I'm your host, Jameson Dance. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software engineers who now have to read more words than ever. I contain multitudes and I believe everything all at the same time.
And so I simultaneously believe that AI rules and is life changing and awesome. And also this enormous fire hose of garbage that ruins lives. And yeah, I get it. I believe that there are groups of people who think they get some kind of
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