This week Dan, Raph, and Richard are joined by special guest Sam! We talk about hard work, burnout, when and how to rewrite your codebase, expert solo coders vs team players, big boring companies vs hot startups, leaf-blowers vs leaf vacuums, and a little bit more.

This week we tackle the ins and outs of interviewing from both sides. We cover framing and "energy" in an interview, the problems with traditional interviews, what to look for in an employer, how to spot and address difficult interviewers, and so much more. Unfortunately our celebrity guest star, best known for his role in "The Firm", Tom Cruse couldn't make it today. Maybe next week Tom!

Co-created by Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey

Executive producer Dan Uhl

This week we switch gears and go waaaay out of our expertise to yammer on about philosophy and morality. It may not be academic, but we hope it's at least entertaining :)

Recorded by Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and not yet Connor MacDonald (we miss you!)

Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and NOT Connor MacDonald (we miss you!) talk about software design and what's important while doing the day to day grind of writing code.

Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and NOT Connor MacDonald (I'm gonna call this out until you get back buddy :) talk about understanding the "why" behind the work we're doing, complexities of business metrics, and Dan has a mental breakdown. Enjoy!

Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and NOT Connor MacDonald (I don't care if you just had a baby, no excuses man ❤️) gather to talk about essentials vs incidentals in software engineering, collaboration across functions, how to get time to do good software design, and so much more!

Also winning at intro/outro music! Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and NOT Connor MacDonald gather to talk about what it means to be winning at software development, about "fractal" concepts and how to apply them, about competing priorities and the job of a line manager, and so much more!

Executive Producer: Dan Uhl

Music: Jamie Bathgate

Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and Connor MacDonald (just listening this time) gather to talk about bubbling up project status in a large organization. Is there any meaning to it? What is project management? Should functions stay in their lane or should we all be hyper cross-functional? All this and more ranting than is ever called for!

Dan Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and Connor MacDonald gather to talk about burnout, how it comes about, what we can do now to help prevent it, and how we as humans are analogous to decoupled microservices.

Daniel Uhl, Raphael Rafatpanah, Richard Laskey, and Connor MacDonald gather to talk about good and bad humans in tech and other functions, how bottom up initiatives work, about emotion and the effect of engineering on the brain, how tech work relates to parenting, and tons of super quotable quotes.