Comment Comment by aen1 Here are some slides summarizing the shorter paper this is based on:https://web.archive.org/web/20170809055122id_/https://learni...tl;dr They did a qualitative survey of what other people think makes a great software engineer at Microsoft.Their take aways:- The ability to learn is more important than any individual technical skill- Making good decisions is rarely discussed in the software engineering literature, but it is critical to being a great software engineer- Software engineering is a sociotechnical undertaking- Delivering the code is often insufficient; complex contextual technical considerations abound. parent aen1 1 year ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20170809055122id_/https://learni...
tl;dr They did a qualitative survey of what other people think makes a great software engineer at Microsoft.
Their take aways:
- The ability to learn is more important than any individual technical skill
- Making good decisions is rarely discussed in the software engineering literature, but it is critical to being a great software engineer
- Software engineering is a sociotechnical undertaking
- Delivering the code is often insufficient; complex contextual technical considerations abound.