Don't believe Hollywood: To be a top programmer, you need to be a team player, not a genius loner

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March 22, 2017 2:42 PM

The annual Stack Overflow survey reveals that developers are looking for team players, not Mr. Robot-style lone geniuses.

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Stack Overflow, the online hangout of choice for programmers, just released its annual developer survey. It's the absolute best look into the state of the software industry you can find anywhere.

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Similarly, survey respondents say that the top two ways to measure a developer's success is by customer satisfaction and their ability to deliver a project on time and at budget. Technical knowledge clocks in at #3, and experience with the tech used by the employer is #4.
And if you think that most programmers started as child prodigies, think again. The survey shows that "a
Despite the public perception of hoodie-wearing, Mark Zuckerberg-style young entrepreneurs, only 9% of developers work at startups. 43% of developers work at privately held, non-startup companies.

Beyond just technology, the Stack Overflow developer survey also reveals the lack of diversity among the programmers who work in the industry.

For instance, according to the study, women account for 7.6% of survey respondents globally. Women are "proportionately more represented" among

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