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Why are they bad if they create good code? :) Personally, I don't think classifying developers as you do works. I think it is very one dimensional.. Like ELO ratings in chess. Good coders are good at everything, bad coders are bad at everything.

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Because they miss deadlines. Of course we can characterize the developers differently. I am considering the employer perspective

Then you are using a metric that doesn't tell you much about the quality of the programmers.

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