What is a good developer? Isn't there more than one axis? For my case over the years I have honed my skills at problem solving, seeing the big picture, and finding the most efficient technical solution from a business perspective (not GAFAM scale obviously, but that's the exception). As a result, I can save companies a lot of time and money because I will help reshape the problem and rework the scope to find the max added value / work ratio, to deliver in days a working solution, instead of a big year long project with all the overhead. My productivity is high because I know where to cut the crap.
More than once I have seen a peer or a whole engineering department of brilliant people going down a technical rabbit hole for weeks for intellectual satisfaction, where instead I will just take a step back, walk to the manager and try to work a different take for a solution that can be implemented in a few hours/days even if the business goal is slightly moved.
Yet I'm definitely not a good professional software developer in terms of code "quality", and don't consider myself very smart compared to my peers.
More than once I have seen a peer or a whole engineering department of brilliant people going down a technical rabbit hole for weeks for intellectual satisfaction, where instead I will just take a step back, walk to the manager and try to work a different take for a solution that can be implemented in a few hours/days even if the business goal is slightly moved.
Yet I'm definitely not a good professional software developer in terms of code "quality", and don't consider myself very smart compared to my peers.
Edit: formating