What Qualities Make a Good Startup Engineer?(theeffectiveengineer.com)
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What Qualities Make a Good Startup Engineer?
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/what-qualities-make-a-good-startup-engineer
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Here's MustWin's answer:
https://medium.com/@mustwin/the-deep-end-identifying-winning...
* Smart enough to build your product
* Stupid enough to take a huge pay cut for someone else's dream/payday
* Stupid enough to take a huge pay cut for someone else's dream/payday
"A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making"
if (lotsOfEquity) { bePragmaticWhichMeansWriteCrappyCodeFast(); } else { codeTheWayYouEnjoy(); boostYourCv(); }
if (lotsOfEquity) { bePragmaticWhichMeansWriteCrappyCodeFast(); } else { codeTheWayYouEnjoy(); boostYourCv(); }
It would seem that most of the qualities he lists would be useful for engineers at larger companies too, not just startups. For example:
- Systematic debugging skills (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who had haphazard debugging skills?)
- Fearlessness to dive into what you don’t know (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who's afraid of doing new things?)
- A tool-building mindset
- A desire to be a player and not a victim
- Grit, combined with a willingness to learn and retrospect
- Systematic debugging skills (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who had haphazard debugging skills?)
- Fearlessness to dive into what you don’t know (Would anyone want to hire an engineer who's afraid of doing new things?)
- A tool-building mindset
- A desire to be a player and not a victim
- Grit, combined with a willingness to learn and retrospect
The ability to deal with large amounts of uncertainty.