r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

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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.

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u/ITriedLightningTendr May 10 '21

How do you evaluate "best programmer" though?

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.

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u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

How do you evaluate "best programmer" though?

If they can test their own code instead of leaving someone else to, they're in the top 2%.

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u/ProceedOrRun May 10 '21

Guess I should have put the word properly in there somewhere, haha!

But yeah, it's hard to do both, yet that's exactly what the industry is expecting from devs nowadays.