Timeless software engineering skills:
1. Not feeling scared to change code you didn't write
2. Empathy for your users and for your collaborators
3. Ability to communicate ideas clearly
I'd hire someone with these skills any day.
To the YouTube commenters saying me being a โthing in a dressโ takes away from the content of my keynote:
I was Reactโs #1 committer for its first 5 years, and now I manage the team. This content wouldnโt _exist_ without me. Would be cool if you respected me as a person too.
Just got out of an interview during which the candidate searched Stack Overflow and copy-pasted some codeโฆ from an answer I wrote. (They didnโt notice.)