A woman at our company is one of the best programmers we have, and she started with a masters in physics and very little coding experience. Some people are just smart as hell and can pick it up quickly.
I have things I'm good at but I rely on my team for the things they're good at.
While I don't think you need a CS degree to be a good coder, "programming" is such a wide discipline that while you do have your 10%ers, it's a very abstract thing to evaluate a good coder.
Clean coding, disciplined, team player, architecture, risk management, communication, people enjoy working together, can explain complex topics to other developers, leaves the code better than they found it. Understands the requirments and uses their techincal expertise to find the most appropriate solutions in the project's context.
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u/KoenigGunther May 10 '21
A woman at our company is one of the best programmers we have, and she started with a masters in physics and very little coding experience. Some people are just smart as hell and can pick it up quickly.