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Habits of Top Developers
Efficient engineerin
Top developers excel because they are very efficient. But what exactly is “efficient”?
How to define “efficient” for a software developer?
- Number of lines of code written?
- Number of tickets closed or number of PR merged?
- Successful architecture review?
- Time spent mentoring and reviewing junior engineers?
- Excellent comments left on PR and RFC?
- Just the team’s qualitative evaluation of how much you like it?
Our profession is rich and diverse. There is no single metric that defines what good “engineering” is. Instead, it is made up of different skills and insights that make a developer a top developer.
Every top developer has a different skill set. Your talents combined with your knowledge and experience have made you the developer you are today.
Top developers are no different.
Pursuit of excellence
Although measuring engineering excellence is difficult, there are some commonalities. We can define some guidelines.
As a developer, your ability to create value is affected by two important criteria. Everyone can control these criteria in their career.
- How big is your contribution?
- What areas will you focus your contribution on?
