https://candost.blog/on-good-software-engineers/
1. Someone may produce a lot of work but it’s often at the cost of team spirit and results in low-quality code. Ultimately, the team is demoralized and the organization bears the cost of substandard code.
2. In general, career frameworks are helpful in defining roles, but they don’t define a good engineer.
A good engineer is one whom I, as a manager or peer, can trust to progress a project, knowing that they will deliver a solution by working with the team and producing good quality, again and again.
1. Someone may produce a lot of work but it’s often at the cost of team spirit and results in low-quality code. Ultimately, the team is demoralized and the organization bears the cost of substandard code.
2. In general, career frameworks are helpful in defining roles, but they don’t define a good engineer.
A good engineer is one whom I, as a manager or peer, can trust to progress a project, knowing that they will deliver a solution by working with the team and producing good quality, again and again.
candost.blog
On Good Software Engineers
I set out to find a simple definition that would help managers frame the fundamental things they expect from software engineers.
