Episode 534: I'm so bad at my job and I've inherited a huge slop pile
Soft Skills Engineering

Episode 534: I'm so bad at my job and I've inherited a huge slop pile

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 202634 min
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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Soft Skills Engineering, I’m a senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience. I’m hoping you can help with with a problem where I’m dumb, weird and bad at my job! There is a recurring problem where, despite all my experience and graybearding, despite my big words, I sometimes just miss very important details, and ways that are very consequential and cause time and feature gaps. Sometimes I make a faulty assumption and gloss over initial errors, and later I get bi...

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It takes more than having no clue what Terraform is and throwing random Atlantis planned commands into the abyss. To be a great engineer, this is Soft Skills Engineering, episode 534. I'm your host, Dave Smith.

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I'm your host, Jameson Dance. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for engineers whose scope of impact of their English language, commands, knows no bounds, or depth limitations. I do like the abyss.

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I like the metaphor here. Yes. Atlantis, the abyss. Oh, that was great.

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