What skills new developers are often lacking:
- Basic project skills
- time management
- effective meetings
- Platform
- Server maintenance
- Development environment
- Version control
- Task management
- Practises
- Reviews
- Object-oriented design
- Liskov SP, Law of Demeter
- Interfaces
- Patterns
- Design
- Architectural
What even old developers are often lacking:
Good bug reporting- What you did, what happened, what should have happened
Clarity of code
- Naming
- SOLID
- Information hiding
- Underengineering vs. overengineering
- Discussion in terms of
- flexibility
- clarity
- complexity
- development time
- e.g. in Git terms
- merge
- rebase
- bisect
- status and logs
- Parallel development models
- Feature branch and pull request
- Development branch with continuous integration
- Release branches
- Regex search/replace
- Navigating to related parts in the codebas
- Automatic refactoring
- Commenting
- Reproducing problems
- Manual binary search
- Checking logs
- Log correlations (what was logged in different places at the same time)
- Debuggers
- Profilers
How to really stand out from other developers:
- Read books
- Contribute to open source
