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What's Your Programmer Personality Type?

Friday, June 08 2007 - Blog

I spent Monday and Tuesday on an offsite with my team, and one of the things we talked about was Myers-Briggs Personality Types.  In case anyone is interested, I am an ENTP.

I stumbled across a Programmer's Personality Type test this morning, and thought it would be fun to share.  Just as in Myers-Briggs, there are 4 scales:

  • Doer - Planner (D-P)
  • Low Level - High Level (L-H)
  • Solo Situation - Team (S-T)
  • Conservative Programmer - liBeral Programmer (C-B)

I took the test and came out as a DHTC.

You're a Doer. - You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a High level. - The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Team. - A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.
You are a Conservative programmer. - The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

What's your Programmer Personality Type?

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#1 Bill Gates on Friday, June 08 2007 at 11:23 PM

DLSB

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