Whenever we aspire to become a Software Developer/FullStack Developer or a Web Developer, we learn the core skills like our programming language, our problem-solving skills, but do you know that there are some other skills that every software engineer should learn and most of the software engineers ignore those skills?
1. Problem-Solving
So the first skill I will talk about is Problem Solving. Many
programmers directly go to the concept, which is good; they learn the
syntax, which is also good, and solve a lot of questions. But it should
not be just about solving a few questions.
Your mindset should be of problem-solving. Can you solve the problem of an
organization on a particular use case or not? That is what matters. When
an organization hires you, it does not hire you for coding; it hires you
for problem-solving. You have to solve an overall problem.
If you think your job is just to write code without knowing what it does,
that mindset is not good. You have to understand the bottlenecks of an
organization. Does an organization have a lot of servers to store data? If
not, then you have to create data-efficient solutions. Is a lot of network
bandwidth being consumed, increasing costs? Then you have to create a
network-optimized solution. The goal is to understand the IT needs and
write code accordingly.
If you want to develop this skill well, as a beginner, sign up on
HackerRank or
LeetCode . These platforms
provide problems reflecting real-world scenarios.
2. Communication Skills
Skill number two is Communication Skill. There are many such coders
whose communication skills are very bad but their coding skills are very
good and they are not getting a job. Nothing is happening in their life.
The reason is their Communication Skills.
There are too many people who cannot even speak English, but their coding
is at a different level. I will hire them any day if I have an
organization. But they are not able to get hired because, Their
communication skills are not good at all.
Just think that the
pronunciation of your words is not right. You are saying something and you
don't even know what has, had is, where to say has, where to say was and
where to say verb. Your basic grammar is not on point and you go to apply
for a software developer's job. That is something I would not recommend.
Unless your communication skills are on point, it will be very difficult
for you to get a job or the job that you deserve.
If you deserve a high paying job in a big organization, you may not get
it. See guys, in any organization, writing code is 50% of your job and the
rest 50 is communicating. And communication skill does not only mean
English. How well you are able to express your feelings is also a part of
communication skill. If you are a person with whom the client talks and
says that yes brother, whatever this guy says, it is also a part of
communication skill.
When you work in an organization or even as a freelancer, your 50% job is
to communicate with people to express what you can do and how you can
provide solutions to them. Strong communication skills ensure that
everybody is always leading the conversation.
3. Use of AI and Learning Mindset
My skill number three will be Use of AI + Learning Mindset. First of all you have to use AI, which around 90% of us do, but along with that there is learning mindset.
Many senior developers think they do not need to learn new things. They say "Brother I don't need to learn, what do I need to learn, well, Mern Stack is popular right now, I make it from scratch, so my work is done".
No brother, if you want to survive in this industry, then you should have a learning mindset and what all can you not learn by using AI, you just have to have a learning mindset and AI is already in your laptop, you go to ChatGPT, you go to Gemini. You go anywhere, There are so many good AI models nowadays that it even works like a charm. What I mean to say is that your mindset should be such that I will keep learning and keep moving forward.
You should always know the right way to learn a new tool or framework. Always go to the official documentation. And sometimes you may find the official documentation difficult. You will feel that I can't do this, I am not able to understand what is written, in such a case, it is better to understand on YouTube, then you can start by watching that video and after that you can always go for English tutorials.
Even the official documentation has some videos which are in English, then that is a good reason to watch English videos. But, if you understand well in your mother tongue, then I would say that you go for that, to learn a new tool or framework, you should learn it, plus you should implement it on your laptop, only then you will be able to do it, unless you do things yourself, you will not be able to learn new tools and frameworks, always go for quick start guides of tools and frameworks.
So Guys,These were the three skills I recommend learning in 2025. Which of these skills do you like? Tell me in the comments. Which skill are you currently working on? Let me know below.
I hope you found this post helpful. Thank you for reading, and see you next time!
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