Your coder Meyer-Briggs Personality Test

Frighteningly accurate. And not only to the way I write code but also how I approach any tech problem.

Thanks for the link!

DLTC

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 Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

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.

Last one is a bit iffy.

Old school programmer, definitely. I mean they don't teach it now do they?

OK why did I get a Picture of Arnie in the Terminator squashing a computer and telling me that I shouldn't work IT? :(

I've never killed a computer yet though I've come close several times. :D

Col ]:)

[b]BTW[/b] the code that it spat out for me was [b]KILL[/b] :_|

Your programmer personality type is:

DLTB

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 Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

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 liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

It explains a lot. No wonder I only code in batch files and scripts any more.

I came out DLSB which is pretty accurate actually. My first programming language was Fortran (on punch cards, this was a while ago), and today I mostly use Perl with some Java. For editing my code I mostly use vim and nedit.

I wonder how, if at all, these correlate with the Myers-Briggs (on which I test out right between INTJ and ISTJ, a little more towards INTJ, and my wife, who is not a coder, tests out INFP -- and we both have taken the official Myers_Briggs test).

I might be biased, but I learned with C and I seem to have come out ok. Although according to one of my coworkers, I'm wrong for loving Perl...'Course he likes Python for some strange reason that I just can't fathom ;-)

Pretty accurate I guess.

I'd like to be less of a planner though..I envy those who dig right in and get things started..
Yet, it can be worth it when I don't have many changes to make and some are shelving half thier code because they approached it in the wrong way. ]:)

But given I haven't coded so much as a hello_world since '92, I guess I still do it oldskool.

The Activity Vector Analysis (AVA), if properly administered and analyzed is the BEST! tool for determining whether or not a person has the appropriate personality for ANY job.

If only students would take the AVA in their early years of college, they could then choose the appropriate major and be prepared to enter an occupation that best suits their personality.

Companies should use the AVA as a condition of employment before selecting any candidate for a position to ensure they are appropriately matched.

This is especially true for Software Engineers.

Kind regards to all,

P.S. I took the AVA before becoming a software engineer, and couldn't possibly think of doing anything else.

Your programmer personality type is:

DLSB

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 Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

Dan

Your programmer personality type is:

PHSB

You're a Planner.
You may be slow, but you'll usually find the best solution. If something's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

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 Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

No, really, pretty close. I came up as PLSB. hummm. That last part, liBeral ?:| now where did that come from? Normally, I hate the white stuff. (places for the bugs to hide :^0 )
If anything, I have to say my philophsy is to keep it plain, simple and basic (the old KISS princible ) :^0 just like me, as a long-haired old fart, it must just do it. -d

I've been pigeonholed as a DHSB but the test sucks. For most of the questions, I had a third option but there was no way to use it.

...is that it only provides a snapshot of the personality, rather than an accurate anaysis.

When you answered the questions there were probably some answer choices that you wavered between. For instance, if you have just come out of an excellecnt and productive meeting you may be inclined to answer the questions that refer to meetings differently than if you have just come out of a time-wasting meeting. And if you have a hangover, even your colleagues, with no training in personality assessment, will be able to tell that your personality is different to normal.

So, whilst flattered, I don't take it seriously when it tells me that:

Your programmer personality type is:

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.