On: Qualities that I believe make the most difference ...

[curiousDog]

I've worked with some too and they've always needed another 10 junior engineers to clean-up and thoroughly test their code later on. In some big corps, that might not be such a bad thing. If it weren't for them, most projects would be stuck in so called "design-meetings" forever.

[stephen_g → curiousDog]

Your comment, like the parent comment, makes it sound like neither of you read the article...

The kind of developer you describe literally almost the complete opposite of what antirez was talking about!

[curiousDog → stephen_g]

I know, I was just making a general observation having worked at some of the Big 4 companies.