Re:A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
by seanhunter on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:30PM
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He was looking after and developing a key set of extremely sensitive servers (custom key/value stores that served all the global risk and pricing infrastructure for a major investment bank).
The desirable qualities (besides being a very good programmer) for such a role include:
1)Being very calm and having exceptional judgement in a crisis. Crises happen a lot.
2)Being sufficiently frightened of breaking things that you proceed with caution
3)Being good enough and having enough confidence in your abilities that you actually manage to get things done in spite of the very significant consequences of mistakes.
The desirable qualities (besides being a very good programmer) for such a role include:
1)Being very calm and having exceptional judgement in a crisis. Crises happen a lot.
2)Being sufficiently frightened of breaking things that you proceed with caution
3)Being good enough and having enough confidence in your abilities that you actually manage to get things done in spite of the very significant consequences of mistakes.