Best engineering podcasts?
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I recently switched to salary, and my workload exploded. Suddenly, everything is "urgent," so I'm working 2–3 hours of unpaid overtime at home every night. The company is billing the client for my extra hours, but I'm not seeing any of it. How do I bring this up with management? I'd rather not keep working for free.
What’s one engineering “best practice” that you think is actually overused or applied in situations where it doesn’t add much value? For me, it’s excessive documentation on very small, low-risk changes. Documentation is important, but I’ve seen teams spend more time documenting simple fixes than implementing them. Where do you draw the line?
How do you know when it’s time to leave a job vs. stick it out and push through a rough patch? For me it comes down to whether the core reasons I took the role are still intact. If the work is still interesting and the people are decent, a rough patch is survivable. But if I’m dreading Mondays every single week, that’s usually a signal worth listening to.
Causality by John Chidgey is a good one. It delves deeply into failures that generally relate to engineering and root cause analysis.
“Being an engineer”has some high level stuff
With the exception of a few stories, Cautionary Tales with Tim Hartford isn't strictly about engineering, but it provides excellent insight into the kind of thinking that engineers need to be aware of.
An engineering, politics, and dark comedy podcast called Well There's Your Problem examines the causes, circumstances, and effects of engineering disasters throughout history, focusing on the mistakes that directly contributed to each catastrophe. I listen to it even during my breaks at work.
For all my women out there, tune into Glorious Ladies of Engineering if you like listening to the diversity in the field of engineering.
On the Space Engineering Podcast, engineers from the aerospace and defense industry discuss the technical specifics of their profession. Brian Douglas, who is well-known for his videos of control systems lectures, is the guest for the first episode.
"Engines of our ingenuity" and "99% invisible". Those were the Podcast channels I usually listen to. I've tried other Podcasts but I find them boring.
99% Invisible is my favorite. I look forward to the episodes weekly.
Her Stem Story is very refreshing and a perspective I haven't heard from any engineering podcast
I like engineering heroes
My top 3 are already mentioned in the other comments. Glorious Ladies of Engineering, The Amp Hour, and 99% Invisible. What's yours?
99% invisible all the way. The other podcasts are boring and redundant.