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How To Behave At a Software Company?

Posted by timothy on from the answer-may-vary-with-stock-ticker dept.

dawilcox writes "I'm a recent grad and am going to begin work at a software company. I want to make a good impression on my boss and coworkers. I know that performance is usually tracked, but there are also innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around. What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?" (Appropriate side question: What behavior traits would you like your co-workers to exhibit?)

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  1. Re:Good hygiene, don't be a know it all. by Eric52902 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't imagine anything more casual than what you describe...

  2. Re:Even balanced by masterwit · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Damn.

    Hearing all of that made me respect a professor a LOT more this past semester.

    Cheers you earn +10 coolpoints in my book.

    Go JMU dukes! (Obligatory 'go college!')

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  3. Re:Good hygiene, don't be a know it all. by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can't? I used to work at a company where the last Thursday of the month was "nudie day". But that's a rather extreme case, so maybe he was just being fucking sarcastic.

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  4. Re:Good hygiene, don't be a know it all. by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ah the /. troll. Since I signed up for the site back in 2k5 (or was it 2k2?) the trolls have not gotten any better, but good for us they haven't gotten any worse - you guys are already the bottom of the barrel. :p

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