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James Stauffer  James Stauffer is a senior software engineer for SPS Commerce. His 8 years there have been mostly maintaining and enhancing one Java enterprise web application. He wasted almost all of his money from high shool graduation gifts adding a 16 MB RAM chip to a Windows 3.11 machine that already had 4 MB and learned the important lesson of "right sizing". James Stauffer's blogWhat kind of programming work do you like best?Posted by staufferjames on January 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM PST
When interviewing candidates (only 3-4 interviews) I would ask them the following question: They always gave then same basic answer: Creating new software.
Would you give one of those answers? Do you have a different answer? »
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Submitted by gadominas on Thu, 2008-01-24 02:41.
There's a nice proverb: "there's no stupid questions, only the answers can be stupid". Your example with the candidates works according to this proverb rule :)
It would be easy to answer to your question if my professional position is sticked to the one, stable problem area. We all debugging problems. We like or not. We all creating something new with every LOC, but this not means that new is equal something useful. We all improving performance after our unitest's results or QA reports.
My shot would be one of these answers:
"* writing business logic.
* designing the UI side.
* creating the fundamental API for my team (inhouse frameworks)
* designing solutions."
Submitted by staufferjames on Wed, 2008-01-23 22:00.
virtualrob: "Developing algorithms" sounds like it fits under "Creating something new"
Submitted by staufferjames on Wed, 2008-01-23 16:01.
I think refactoring is similar to improving but I'm not sure that it should be lumped with it.
Submitted by richunger on Wed, 2008-01-23 15:30.
Agreed. My greatest joy is deleting code and replacing it with a smaller, simpler, more elegant piece of code.
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