Jamison quickly took us through his studies, how he zoomed in on computer sciences... not without a few detours beforehand. We talked about his part time jobs and how he learned what a bad manager can be. We then jumped forward a few years to talk about management, what it takes to do a good job there, the challenges and successes of the function. We finished talking about two dreaded responsibilities of a manager: hiring and firing and how Jamison made his way through this.

Jamison is a code whisperer and experienced product engineer. He has led teams and been led. Jamison is currently an engineering manager at Walmart Labs leading a distributed team in building delightful APIs and UIs that configure Walmart’s performance systems. He also co-hosts the "Soft Skills Engineering podcast". If this name is new to you, you should definitely listen to Episode 77 of this very DevJourney podcast where I interviewed Dave Smith, the other half of the co-hosts of this show. Oh and Jamison thinks you are great!

Here are the links of the show:

https://www.twitter.com/jamison_dancehttps://jamison.dancehttps://softskills.audiohttps://devjourney.info/Guests/77_DaveSmith.htmlhttps://tinyurl.com/shitty11meetingsBook: The making of a manager by Julie Zhuo https://amzn.to/37VTt1cBook: An elegant puzzle by Will Larson https://amzn.to/31layz0https://conf.reactjs.orghttps://www.reactrally.comhttps://devjourney.info/Guests/52_CharityMajors.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Fournier

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Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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Software Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.

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