How To Behave At a Software Company?

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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[drinkypoo]

I prefer antiperspirant to avoid developing smells in the first place rather than simply trying to mask them..

Too bad antiperspirant actually has the effect of gluing dying skin cells to your armpits in a way that is difficult to remove even with soap, causing you to smell like rotting flesh covered up with perfume. You can't smell the attar of death because you're acclimated to it.

I have never smelled better than I do now since I stopped using any product, and simply wash myself and put on clean clothes every morning. Sometimes I shave my armpits in the middle of summer, because I have a lot of hair, and I sweat a lot.

Not sweating is not healthy.