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

Links

• https://www.quora.com/What-qualities-make-a-good-coder