Apropos of this in the context of hiring, one of the biggest green flags I'll attach to someone's CV is any combination of infrastructure/operations, and applic

Apropos of this in the context of hiring, one of the biggest green flags I'll attach to someone's CV is any combination of infrastructure/operations, and application development, at the same job. Since the 1990s I've worked around ISP, hosting, and cloud firms. Many have a core of general purpose people that can't help themselves but have one foot in both graves (we call this DevOps or SRE now, but those are new labels for a long-standing viewpoint). This often correlates to someone who embodies the mindset in the article, viz. that they they will gladly and actively defend any ditch we dig together. They always get on my interview list (the green flag). Very often the interviews are a wide-ranging, free-flowing, and in-depth discussion of multilateral & cross-functional technology/process interactions. Many of the people I've met with this combination will progress, either immediately or eventually, to become very effective CTOs, tech co-founders, or the highest levels of IC at larger tech firms. Interestingly, and I say this purely anecdotally because I am not actually qualified to make the diagnosis, some of them also appear to me to have an attentional difference, or present from an unprivileged background, and may not have followed a standard educational path as a result of either. Which is to say that I usually delete "must have bachelors degree" from any JD that HR ask me to authorize.