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Strengths Are Your Weaknesses

The qualities you value most in engineers are also creating your biggest problems. Here’s how to handle this paradox.

Well, until one day… During a particularly painful postmortem, we discovered that a production issue happened because of an edge case I had missed in my rush to complete the feature. My strength (coding speed) and my weakness (occasionally overlooking details) weren’t separate traits — they were the exact same characteristic showing up differently depending on the context. You have permission to just decide and move on.” This clear guidance helped him develop his own judgment about when to lean into his collaborative nature.

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