What Qualities Make a Good Startup Engineer?

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http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/what-qualities-make-a-good-startup-engineer

[lmartel]

* Smart enough to build your product

* Stupid enough to take a huge pay cut for someone else's dream/payday

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"A pragmatic attitude toward decision-making"

if (lotsOfEquity) { bePragmaticWhichMeansWriteCrappyCodeFast(); } else { codeTheWayYouEnjoy(); boostYourCv(); }

[greenyoda]

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

[mikeihbe]

Here's MustWin's answer: https://medium.com/@mustwin/the-deep-end-identifying-winning...

[andrewdubinsky]

The ability to deal with large amounts of uncertainty.