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How To Recognize a Good Programmer Mike Minton

January 11th, 2008

I found a link on Slashdot to a great blog post about recognizing good programmers. Based on my experience of working with and managing dozens of software engineers over the years, I definitely agree with many of his positive and negative indicators.

How To Recognize A Good Programmer

Here are my favorites from the post:

Positive indicators:

  • Passionate about technology
  • Learns new technologies on his/her own
  • Opinionated about which technologies are better for various usages
  • Knowledge of a large variety of unrelated technologies (may not be on CV)

Negative indicators:

  • Programming is a day job
  • Happy to work with whatever technology you’ve picked, “all technologies are good”
  • Focused mainly on one or two technology stacks (e.g. everything to do with developing a java application), with no experience outside of it
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  1. 2 Responses to “How To Recognize a Good Programmer”

  2. By Wayne Rodgers on Jan 12, 2008 | Reply

    Your story has become tiresome. Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance.

  3. By Ryan Hadley on Jan 12, 2008 | Reply

    You have disturbed me almost to the point of insanity. There. I am insane now.

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