One must-have skill as a software engineer

5 min readMay 15, 2021

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Originally published at adityatyagi.com

TLDR: Perseverance.

I have read a number of articles, streamed hours of YouTube content and have been on the receiving end of “How to be a better software engineer” throughout my 3+ years of career in tech. But one thing that I, and many other software engineers learn the hard way — some through passion, some through grit and some through chasing deadlines is the importance of…

Aditya Tyagi

Written by Aditya Tyagi

Full Stack Engineer | JavaScript | TypeScript | React | CSS

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