Characteristics of Excellent Software Engineers, by Lee Bob Black
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Excellent software engineers have several key characteristics: 1. They are passionate about coding and love figuring out how systems work. 2. They are dedicated to getting work done efficiently and regularly improving their code. 3. They are merciless in debugging and removing all errors from their code to ensure high quality and availability. 4. They are naturally curious and experimental to continuously innovate and bring visions to life through code.
Characteristics of Excellent Software Engineers, by Lee Bob Black
- 1. Characteristics of Excellent Software Engineers Characteristics of Excellent Software Engineers
- 2. To confirm if you’re an excellent software engineer, ask yourself these questions:
- 3. Do you love tinkering with systems to figure out what makes them digitally tick? Powerful software engineers write powerful code. Do you? Are you passionate about coding? 1.
- 4. Superior software engineers take pride in regularly revising and releasing new code. Are you the kind of person that gets massive amounts of stuff done? 2. Do you take a get-stuff-done approach?
- 5. Not every coder is dedicated to trouble- shooting and removing errors from their code — but they should be. How bug-free is your code? What availability levels do your apps have? 3. Am I a merciless bug killer?
- 6. Unfortunately, not everyone in software development is committed to quality. The problem is, quality isn’t something that can be added later. Do you start and end with quality? Are you all about quality?4.
- 7. In all industries, truly innovative people are genuinely inquisitive and enjoy experimenting. When it comes to software, does this describe you? Can you not wait to get to a keyboard and make someone’s vision come to life through code? 5. Are you naturally curious and adventurous?
- 8. Staying up-to-date with trends in digital convergence, APIs, web apps, and data security can seem like a full- time job. Are you doing more than just keeping up with a few technological advances here and there? 6. Are you keen to keep learning?
- 9. Lee Bob Black adapted this presentation from the following article he wrote for SkilledUp: “How to Become a Software Engineer: You Could Be the Next King of Queen of Code” Monique Sterling designed this presentation.