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Musa N. Isah
Musa N. Isah

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Skills you need to become a successful Software Engineer

As a software engineer, you need to have a combination of hard and soft skills.

Your job involves writing code, reviewing code, and working with product developers and the project manager.

"But this is not the case!"

As any software Engineer can do, what do you need to do to stand out from the crowd?

I have broken things down so that you know how to succeed and stand out from the crowd.

let us take a look at the Hard skills you need to be a successful engineer.

Hard skills are technical abilities learned through education or professional development. These are skills for proficiency and competency.
A need to be successful software engineer needs to be familiar with:

  1. Programming language
  2. Data structure and algorithms
  3. Testing and Debugging
  4. containers

These are hard skills you need to be more familiar with if you want to be a successful software engineer who stands out from the crowd and drives more successfully.

We shall take a first seat on soft skills in our next post.

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