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No, you can't. The only people who know who are the good devs are the other devs who have worked with those devs. Reputation outside of the dev circle is larg
by Stormbringer 16y ago
No, you can't.
The only people who know who are the good devs are the other devs who have worked with those devs. Reputation outside of the dev circle is largely orthogonal to dev ability, and rather closely tied to social skills e.g. schmoosing the managers.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoMan, I am no engineer but I can say with GREAT confidence I know bad engineers.
- Stormbringer 16y agoAre you referring to computer engineers, or other kinds of engineers? (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil etc) I was talking to an older guy the other week, he didn't seem particularly "switched on". Turns out he makes well over twice what I do, because he predates COBOL, the people that he works for a terrified he'll leave/get hit by a bus etc and nobody will have the skills and knowledge to maintain the systems their business runs on, because all his compatriots got wiped out by an asteroid. I wouldn't say he was bad at his job. If I was to guess I'd say he was 'okay' at his job, but he didn't seem to have that spark that I associate with greatness. But as his take home packet proves, sometimes 'good enough' is great too :D