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Skills They Don't Teach You in Tutorials but Companies Actually Pay For

TheBitForge on December 28, 2025

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Nur Hasan Masum

Great Read.. Thanks for showing a different POV.
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Hadil Ben Abdallah

This is one of those articles that quietly hits too close to home. You articulated something many of us feel but struggle to name: past a certain point, code quality stops being the differentiator, judgment, communication, and context do.

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Cyber Safety Zone

Great article! 👏 I especially connected with the idea that companies don’t pay for technical knowledge — they pay for solving real problems and reducing organizational pain. Tutorials are great for learning syntax and tools, but as you pointed out, they rarely teach how to scope a problem, communicate effectively, or understand business context — and those skills often make the biggest difference in real projects and careers.

Two points that really stood out to me:

Asking better questions beats writing “clever” code — knowing what to build is more important than how beautifully you build it. A simple solution that solves the real need will always outperform an impressive but unnecessary implementation.

Professional maturity is a superpower — things like judgment, communication, and stakeholder empathy are what help senior engineers make an impact, not just knowledge of frameworks or algorithms.

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Faiz

This is one of the few very well-written articles that is not being done by AI, so I appreciate the author's effort on this. There's a lot of things that we can take away from this article. Thank you.

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Oren O

That's some nice piece of work, was very enjoyable to read.

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TheBitForge

👏

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Mihir Rabade

This actually inspires me to make a handy Check list of some sorts to carry with me.

Thanks a lot for such a good point of view!

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TheBitForge

Thank You.......!!!

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klink.cloud

Very good!

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TheBitForge

Thanks ♥

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