You may have heard of "tenfold" engineers. They are very productive, efficient, work literally for ten. If such exist, then surely there must be single engineers?
Of course there are. Let's try to make a list of the qualities inherent in a simple single engineer. Incomplete list.
So, 1x engineer ...
- If not sure about the situation, look for an answer on Google, Duckduckgo, Bing and wherever he can.
- Copies and pastes code snippets from Stack Overflow, Glitch, Codepen, or other resources where he finds answers.
- Gives credit to the authors of the code if necessary.
- Creates a community and shares knowledge.
- Spends time on non-engineering things such as hobbies, friends, and family.
- Maintains a healthy work-life balance and respects the time of others.
- Does not rate itself with arbitrary contribution metrics on any site and does not judge others for their metrics and contributions.
- Writes code, & emdash filled with & emdash; bugs.
- Writes code that others can read.
- Reads the documentation.
- Updates documentation.
- Not necessarily interested in the code they write or the problem they solve, although they can.
- Do not be surprised when someone does not know something.
- Willing and able to collaborate with others.
- Publicly praises others for their victories.
- Asks questions before criticizing.
- Criticizes in private, not publicly.
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- Works to live, not live to work.
- Sometimes he loses his job.
- Doesn't always remember the entire codebase.
- Respects and supports community codes of conduct.
- Can work at home, in the office, in a cafe or anywhere else where it works best.
- Doesn't hate tools, processes, or languages that he himself would rather not use or that others use.
- His identity is not determined by the computer he uses.
- Can decorate his laptop and workspace in any way he likes and is also respectful of others' decor (or lack thereof).
- Doesn't get hyped on Twitter from ignorant venture capitalists.
Is there something missing on the list? One-time engineers are often humble and willing to accept pull requests to fix bugs.
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