Career: Soft Skills for Software Engineers

Learn all the essential soft skills required for software engineers

About This Course

When it comes to finding a job, keeping it, and getting promoted as a software engineer, the software engineering itself is only half the story. The rest is all about soft skills and navigating the corporate space in a way which allows you to shine as a person. In this course, Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager Nick Cosentino and Yelp Engineering Manager Ryan Murphy will transfer the knowledge they gained over the years as software engineers and managers so you can learn what you should or shouldn't do as a software engineer.

Course Curriculum

4h 47m 8 sections

Welcome

01:33 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

02:52 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites?

01:30 Free preview

Teaching style

02:31

What Are Soft Skills?

04:34

Understanding The Importance

07:26

Common Misconceptions

07:23

Exercise: Where Are You Now?

11:05

Written Communication Skills

16:48

Verbal Communication Skills

11:27

Active Listening

06:56

Exercise: Clear & Concise Writing

19:22

Working Effectively Within Teams

08:54

Cross Functional Collaboration

09:52

Giving and Receiving Feedback

16:40

Conflict Resolution

17:07

Exercise: Constructive Feedback Example

11:29

Managing Multiple Priorities

15:25

Handling Change

09:00

Work-Life Boundaries

12:31

Exercise: Prioritisation Challenge

14:33

Self Awareness

12:04

Empathy In The Workplace

11:19

Handling Stress & Burnout

14:12

Exercise: Stress Management Plan

11:14

Building A Personal Brand

12:57

Networking & Relationship Building

07:06

Navigating Promotions

08:11

Conclusion

00:50

Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy is an experienced Engineering Manager at Yelp, content creator, writer and speaker. He currently leads the teams responsible for all the infrastructure behind reliable and safe purchasing. His career has typically seen him either working on trading platforms at large financial institutions or implementing scalable infrastructure behind advertising.
Ryan’s goal is to level-up the next generation of software engineering leadership, where there is currently little on offer for training and learning those new skills.

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