Re:How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job?
by mosselman on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:02PM
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Yes, exactly. There are developers who can create code that works, that looks fine, that works for a certain context; however that context is completely separate from reality.
Conceptual damage to an application is a lot harder to fix than the damage of 'ugly' code. You spend years fully recovering from fundamental flaws in the concepts of your application.
Was he a good developer? Looking at his github repo I would have said yes... talking to him I said yes... if I had examined what he built without any context I would have said yes, but really he was something of a company destroyer that I would not ever recommend to anyone else.