Need help from a software developer!

>>58481610
What is that image

>>58481610
Depends what is developed, how much he/she will communicate with your customers or if its only internal in the company.

1. Communication skills are valued
2. Because if you are not able to clearly know and communicate you may end up developing something the customer didn't ask for
3. ^ and real world experience

Developing both internal tools and whatever suits customers in a engineering firm

>>58481610
1. Being smart and not being an asshole.
2. Because you will interact with them / results of their labor 40h/week.
3. Being smart enough to realize that they know nothing.

Consulting; whatever brings money.

>>58481635
Emma Stone beauty and the beast doll made into a classic meme

1) crossdressing and wearing striped socks, it can boost your sofware development skills at least 200%
2) everyone knows that wearing cute girl clothes will help you write programs
3) Proper dragon dildo training

>>58481610
>1. What skills are expected (or most valued/needed) from a person working as a software developer in your company?
Depends on the organization, and the position. It can range from needing middling skills in any language, to encyclopedic knowledge of a specific language, and from code-monkey skill through advanced engineering. If you go in there and don't get it, you probably didn't have what they were looking for. You absolutely need the ability to take criticism, to change your mind and plans when the facts/situation changes, and to explain your ideas. If you can't do that, you won't be able to get along.

>2. Why these skills are important?
You have to be able to work with other people.

>3. Based on your experience, which skill(s) – if any – are typically lacking from students graduating from a University or a College.
Don't expect university to directly prepare you for work. That bullshit you always hear about, 'it teaches you how to learn', isn't far from the truth. You have to learn on the job, every time. No matter how many jobs you have. What's missing from university study are soft-skills, ie: how to participate in a meeting with people who are NOT all equals (you have a boss, they have a boss, and up. Get used to it).

>Also if you want you could say a little personal things like what type of business you're in and what your position/tasks are?

I work as a sysadmin at a research company.

>>58481691
That's Emma Watson brah

>>58481610
>>58482039
>2. Why these skills are important?
I would add to that being able to budget time appropriately and being good at estimating time for task completion. Managers love to get a quote on how long some task will take, if you just came out of university you may not have had to estimate those type of things accurately.

On large projects being able to write good documentation for maintenance people to use afterward is also really important.

>>58481610
>1. What skills are expected (or most valued/needed) from a person working as a software developer in your company?

Before you ask any proper questions there is a basic hygiene checklist that you use to weed out people quickly. Ask softball stuff about what tools they use and why, what frameworks they choose and why. Ask them what they liked most and liked least about their last job. Fail them if they can't even answer personal questions that are about their own opinions. A developer without any opinions is worth shit as they clearly don't care.

Then the actual skill checklist is:
* Aptitude - are they competent at computers/developing. I don't care if they don't really know the language because a good developer will be able to learn.
* Social skills - they will be taking orders from a project manager and their scrum master. They will have to write feedback on pull requests. They will have to ask others to review their work. There will be times when they will work closely with other developers on the same task so will need to be able to break down jobs and/or XP. If they lack the basic skills to do this it's a fail.
* An extension of the above, but it's slightly different - are they /cool/. If they get their pull request rejected are they going to sulk and make it personal. They need to be able to develop from critical feedback and not have their opinions get in the way of things.

2. Why these skills are important?

Explained above.

3. Based on your experience, which skill(s) – if any – are typically lacking from students graduating from a University or a College.

Immaturity. Some people will pick up these skills really quickly. Others are literal manchildren that expect goodboypoints for wiping their arse and can't play nicely in a team. The (not-so-hard) part of this is identifying these people and dropping them before wasting more time on them./