Soft Skills Engineering · Jamison Dance and Dave Smith
Episode 469: Passed over for lead role and perhaps I'm the jerk
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A QA veteran with 20+ years experience trains a new hire, only to see them promoted to lead instead.
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Soft Skills Engineering episode 469 looks at inherited code, shaky habits, and the politics of changing a team from the inside.
Soft Skills Engineering episode 469 stays on the human side of a messy codebase. A new joiner is trying to make sense of hacky tooling, an absent senior engineer, and a boss who wants to get to the destination fast and does not care much about process.
Why you'd press play
If you're the new engineer staring at a hacky codebase and a boss who treats process talk like risk aversion, start here.
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