Re: what you look for in a coder...
Noel Llopis <[email protected]>
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:43 am, CAVEY GERARD wrote: > Someone here spoke about the stress during an interview : > do you think it is really important , do you think the social aspect of the > coder is really important ?Will you deny a good engineer because he doesn t > talk so much ... I'd say the social aspect is extremely important. Game development is a team activity. Any programmer/coder/engineer in a functional team is going to have to interact frequently with other programmers/artists/designers. Someone who can't interact in a normal way with the rest of the team, even in situations of stress and personal critique, could be a liability to the team. But that's very different than not talking very much or not liking the same TV shows as the rest of the team. While on the subject, something else to look for in a team member that I don't think anybody has mentioned: Diversity. Getting people from different backgrounds, different companies (very important!), who approach problems in different ways, think differently, have different hobbies, read different books, and play different games can only strengthen your team in the long run. You just have to keep them from killing each other :-) --Noel Games from Within http://www.gamesfromwithin.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ Gamedevlists-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gamedevlists-general Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=557