Good coder

This is linked to the level that you are (junior,mid,senior etc), and thus linked to how much renumeration you receive
The more you are renumerated, the higher you are valued
- Does not mean that you are good coder, could be you are indispensible (ie only one that knows the system, can fix things etc)
- More money you make is dependent on how much money you bring in
The judgement on your level is dependent on
- the people assessing you and their perception from
  - other coders
    colleagues and ex colleagues
    others (from open source, conferences, forums etc)
  - the business
  - recruiters
- Facts
  - code metrics etc
- The experience you have
  - the systems
  - business domain
  - tech stack
  - foundations (CS, design, knowledge etc)
  - past work experience
Others will decide this
- From title given
- renumeration
- Conversations
- tests
- interviews
- REsume
- workign with you
Some other ideas of what a good coder is:
- You solve problems
  - know to use the right tools, processes, technologies within the constraints to solve the problem
- Get things done and working
  - meet the needs of the people are asking for
  - Does not need to be elegent, super engineered etc
- Always learning and improving
  - when dont know, says so and learns
- Have opinions, but changeable
- Using scientific method
- They know the industry that they work in, and the requirements and build solutions for these
  - Listen and ask questions
  - Knowing about the trees and how they affect the forest, and vice versa
- Learn from mistakes, from customers.users to build better systems faster
- automate tasks to improve performance, effectiveness, efficiency in a cost effective manner within economic constraints
- You allow your client (business/boss/company etc) to gain value from the work you do
  - The more value you add the more value they gain, and this should be exponential in cases
- Help the company make money or save money
  - create features, improve usability
  - increase speed at which code can be extended and maintained
  - Reduce buggy code
- Provide direct input to systems that
  - interact with the customer
  - help the business do business tasks
- Provide input to systems that indirectly help the business
- Help improve others to be better to improve the business
- Work with a range of people
- People come to you for answers, help, ideas
- People come to you work on a project
- Simplifies

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