⌨ Important aspects of software code

When it comes to computer coding, algorithmic magic is important but managing the complexity is more consequential for a a software project. It is a huge deal for containing the cost of maitaining software.

I have seen programming "gurus" write super performant code that is hard to understand for mere mortals. I have also seen obscure naming conventions, almost no documentation or tests even. No matter, if this code was written by an angel programmer, it will get stale over time and will need to be maintained, most probably by someone other than who wrote it.

Lot of times programmers are interviewed using these hard puzzles and one super efficient pattern or some other programming gem. Its not worth it. Assessing the organizational skills might get a very productive engineer