The “Product Programmer” and “Technical Programmer” profiles are identical,
except one is motivated by product design, and the other by solving hard
programming problems.
This is great.
I've struggled with trying to define the difference between the great systems engineers I meet and the engineers who make great products (sometimes at the expense of all elegance under the hood).
This sums it up nicely... it's where the focus is. I'm surrounded by engineers focusing on systems programming, but I don't think of myself as similar to them, I've always been end user obsessed and customer focused. It's nice to see this difference acknowledged.
I've struggled with trying to define the difference between the great systems engineers I meet and the engineers who make great products (sometimes at the expense of all elegance under the hood).
This sums it up nicely... it's where the focus is. I'm surrounded by engineers focusing on systems programming, but I don't think of myself as similar to them, I've always been end user obsessed and customer focused. It's nice to see this difference acknowledged.