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Episode 403: Massaging the software and career never-never-land
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Episode 402: It's all on fire and title inflation
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Episode 401: I AM the superstar and pro-rated raise
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Episode 400: Underperforming intern and upskilling
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Episode 399: Higher paid than my boss and crossing over to management
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Episode 398: Tech lead for contractors and how to detach my ego from my work
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Episode 397: Skunkworks and too much work/life balance
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Episode 396: Enthusiastic scope creep and human search engine
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Episode 395: Super star teammate and Getting better with no financial incentives
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Episode 394: Scrum master, weapons master and minimum tenure to not look bad
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Episode 393: Soft skills for interns and intern to QA
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Episode 392: Old code and choosing my annual reviewers
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Episode 391: Post-staff and direct or a jerk
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Episode 390: Fixing typos and Cassandra
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Episode 389: Sleepy and bureaucracy
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Episode 388: Money not compliments and principal engineer coding guidelines
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Episode 387: No juniors and manager forced to return to office
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Episode 386: Stuck with toil and how to get a dev job as a self-taught career-switcher in 2023
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Episode 385: Attention to detail and sabbatical
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Episode 384: EM missing code and non-location pay
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Episode 383: In the trenches without writing code and how to close a social skill gap
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Episode 382: Mentors for managers and mob programming
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Episode 381: Doing less and bad reference
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Episode 380: Overruled by non-technical manager and describing technical stuff to non-technical people
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Episode 379: Someone fixed my ticket and is tech debt bad for my career
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Episode 378: Too much leadership and awkward zoom silence
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Episode 377: Short Tenure Promotion and too much free time at work
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Episode 376: Return to office and quitting tech
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Episode 375: visa woes and Bob does everything wrong
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