In my experience the S-W/CB are very rare, rarer than the W+S type. I've worked with one or two over the course of ten years, but they tend to gravitate into pr

In my experience the S-W/CB are very rare, rarer than the W+S type. I've worked with one or two over the course of ten years, but they tend to gravitate into project management or BA positions in a short amount of time. The most common type of developer is the fourth category, missing from the article: the -S-W type. Not really all that good, and with little to no political acumen. They fill most roles at medium-to-large IT companies. And having known many (a lot of them are nice people otherwise), I can tell you that each and everyone of them thinks they personally are a W-S type. They think their uninspiring, slow, painful expertise (if its hard for them its because it must be a hard problem, right?) makes them top of their field, and that when other developers are the 'superstars' its just because they are better at politics. The biggest truth, the most important truth that the article seems biased against, is that unless you live in a cave working on software with two other like-minded hardcore devs, 50% of your job is communication! Not being good at communication makes you a bad developer, regardless of your technical abilities.