Effective Communication For Engineers

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Alex ChiouTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
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Total time: 45 minutes
Course Overview

Communication is a skill that software engineers often underestimate in terms of importance, and being good at it is effectively a senior engineer requirement. In this series, you will learn how to:

  • Earn trust quickly and make people like you fast
  • Resolve disagreements
  • Make it easy for others to understand and resonate with you
  • Be a friendly, visible, and high-performing presence on any team (both remote and in-person)
Meet Alex Chiou

Alex Chiou is a proven Silicon Valley engineer with 10 years of experience across top tech companies PayPal, Course Hero (now Learneo, a $3.6B unicorn), Meta, and Robinhood. With just 1 year of experience, he became a tech lead building Course Hero's Android app from scratch and growing the Android team from himself to 4 engineers. At Meta and Robinhood, he continued being a high-performing tech lead, driving teams of 15+ engineers.


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Software Engineer IIICrunchyroll

This was a very informative and frankly delightful course. The focus on creating positive energy and leading with empathy as a framework for these tactics was a breath of fresh air.

I can already see areas where I can immediately apply this advice and benefits when I've used these tactics in the past (e.g. using my manager as a "people API" for feedback).

Thanks, Alex!

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John CrickettCoding Challenge Writer @ CodingChallenges.fyi

This series alone is well worth the cost of joining Taro! I've learned many of these lessons the hard way.

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Suhaib SaeedSoftware Engineer II @ Samsara

This course was very insightful and helped me become a better communicator in my new job. I learned that empathy and putting yourself in others shoes can help make you more effective as an engineer and an all-round better human.

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Junior EngineerStartups

Thanks so much for the course Alex! It was really, really insightful. I think I have really underestimated just how valuable good communication is, but getting my first job out of university has illuminated that. What I love is how this advice applies not only to one's career, but to every part of life involving other humans!

I really am hoping to implement some of this advice in concrete scenarios and to match energy and build positive energy with people. I've had a lot of the ideas articulated in this series but haven't been sure how to articulate them.

Thanks again Alex!

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Sachin PadmanabhanStaff Software Engineer

Most of the effective mentorship I've received over the course of my career, summarized succinctly and packaged into engaging video format. Alex is the mentor I wish I had!

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Lead Software EngineerVista

I liked the topics that were chosen and the examples were very relevant. I highly recommend this course

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Senior Software EngineerLexisNexis

Great introductory content and food for thought, but much more content like this please.

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Senior Software Engineer [G4]Grab

Amazing insights from Alex, as always :)

Loved learning about communication in depth.

Listing to this and taking note really helps to be more conscious that we communicate well.

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