Top 10 Unwanted Characteristic of a Developer

1. Egoness
Example: -
We are senior and we have many years of exposure and we know what we need to do, please keep your explanation to yourself.
Outcome: -
Fail to grow as a team, fail to deliver or deliver with ULTRA high defects. Copying design ideas from others but not bothering to ask and resulting in sub-standard code, but proclaiming that is the beauty of it when challenged.

2. Year-istic Mathematician
Example: -
I want a lead role because of my many years of exposure. I work with many big profound companies and I derserved the lead role.
Outcome: -
Not able to justify the pros and cons and delivering sub standard work or not delivering at all.

3. Favor Quick Wins over Quality
Example: -
Deliver the max within the shortest time is the primary concern of the company to make money. Patterns and design are purism and that often complicates the development.
Outcome: -
Fails to grow as a team or individually. Produced sub standard codes that needs major rework whenever enhancement needs imposed.

4. Never Admit Own Mistakes
Example: -
The bugs had happened because the calling function never do a parameter validation and error checking.
The late delivery was largely due to inconsistent and or incomplete requirements.
Outcome: -
Never learn from mistakes and similar problems reoccuring over and over again. It is quite clear that if it is not your problem but it somewhat impact your work delivery or team goals, it is everyone's problem and deal with it if you can, escalates otherwise.
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