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What Qualities Make a Good Startup Engineer?
- lmartel 12y ago* Smart enough to build your product * Stupid enough to take a huge pay cut for someone else's dream/payday
- _random_ 12y ago"A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making" if (lotsOfEquity) { bePragmaticWhichMeansWriteCrappyCodeFast(); } else { codeTheWayYouEnjoy(); boostYourCv(); }
- greenyoda 12y agoIt would seem that most of the qualities he lists would be useful for engineers at larger companies too, not just startups. For example: - Systematic debugging skills (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who had haphazard debugging skills?) - Fearlessness to dive into what you don’t know (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who's afraid of doing new things?) - A tool-building mindset - A desire to be a player and not a victim - Grit, combined with a willingness to learn and retrospect
- ocfx 12y agoHow do i grit
- andrewdubinsky 12y agoThe ability to deal with large amounts of uncertainty.
- mikeihbe 12y agoHere's MustWin's answer: https://medium.com/@mustwin/the-deep-end-identifying-winning-developers-1922b82202e5 https://medium.com/@mustwin/the-deep-end-identifying-winning...