What Makes a Senior Software Developer?

Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by Eiriksmal on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:14AM (#13155720)

Engineer happily using GitPrime here. After sitting in on a Skype session we had with your team once upon a time, I took your earlier (pre-Impact) observations on the correlation between commit volume and overall performance to heart and consciously focused on chunking my work more. It will come as no surprise to you that this strategy's helped me stay consistently in the upper right of the 2x2 chart. Thanks, Ben!

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by Xcelerate on Monday December 12, 2016 @07:27AM (#13157562)

> I took your earlier observations on the correlation between commit volume and overall performance

What does this mean? The best developers tend to have the most commits?

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by jiaweihli on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:59AM (#13159565)

I can believe that there's _some_ correlation.

From what I've seen, a high frequency of commits means either:

  - Has very little understanding and churns out code one day and removes it the next.
  - Thinks a lot about their code, and divides them into digestible, independent chunks.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by ____nope on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:57PM (#13161353)

So it correlates either to a lazy developer or a really good developer? That isn't much of a correlation.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by jiaweihli on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:47PM (#13178548)

It's some correlation, and it's more useful than the full spectrum.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by thebent on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:37AM (#13155836)

Ah nice, @Eiriksmal — 'once upon a time…' and 'pre-impact', sounds like this was a while ago now :) Encouraging to hear that this has been helpful for you.

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