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4 Red Flags of Terrible Developer

Runaway from these people

Denys Opria
CodeX
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4 min readNov 22, 2021

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Perhaps you know, that the IT market is growing like crazy these days. And I do not talk about some stocks or options. I talk about people, who make all the IT stuff work — developers. Even 20 years old Senior Developers

Companies move their services online. Communication with clients became remote. So everyone needs more applications, more websites, more automation processes. To create and maintain all that infrastructure you need a huge amount of developers. So, demand for developers is growing high.

A great developer can give you value and improve team performance. A bad one can decrease team efficiency dramatically. So it’s safer, not to hire a fantastic specialist than to hire an awful one. The price of mistakes is high. Now, it’s more actual than ever.

It’s difficult to analyze a person in 30 minutes interview. You can’t go deep. You can’t check real technical knowledge on every topic. But here are some red flags, that you should pay attention to.

1. Can’t say “I don’t know”

The simple thing you should always scan during the interview — ability to say “I don’t know”. It’s OK, not to know something. We…

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Denys Opria
CodeX
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