I recently saw this somewhere outlining what a group was looking for in attributes in a developer. I thought it raised some interesting questions…
What they look for in the Soft Skills
Must haves
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Team player
- Problem solver
- Knows when to ask for help
- Agile mindset
- Curious
- Keen to learn
Nice to haves
- Humble
- Patient
- Sense of humour
- Tech enthusiast
- Keen to teach
Deal breakers
- Arrogant
- Argumentative
- Loose cannon
- Lone wolf
- Code fascist
- Unable to change mind
- Doesn’t care about business value
- Unwilling to socialize
What they look for in the Technical Skills
Must haves
- Readable code
- Testable code
- Quality focus
- Clear documentation
- SDLC
- Web exposure
- Cloud exposure
- Scrum exposure
- Exposure to architecture
Nice to haves
- React front end
- Python or Node.js back end
- OOP, TDD, BDD
- AWS
- Microservices
- Devops
- Settup up CD/CI pipelines
- Test automation
- High volume, large compelex systems
- Accounting knowledge
Deal breakers
- Monolingual
- Microsoft centric
- Only interested in shinny new tech
- No online experience
- No experience with unit testing
- No experience with legacy systems
- No experience supporting production
