# romenrg/evergreen-skills-developers

List of evergreen skills, based on software development best practices & cross-framework principles, that should serve as a fair assessment of skilled software engineers / developers

Repository: https://github.com/romenrg/evergreen-skills-developers
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/evergreen-skills-developers
Homepage: https://www.romenrg.com/blog/2018/12/29/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer/
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: evergreen-skills, best-practices, software-engineering, software-development, technical-interviews, technical-interview-questions, cross-framework-principles, clean-code, software-engineering-concepts
Last push: 2022-12-17T06:45:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2809, "days_push": 1355, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2270, forks 143 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.073462+00:00)

## What it is
A curated list of evergreen, framework-agnostic skills for software developers, covering best practices, cross-framework principles, and soft skills. It is intended as a fair reference for assessing engineers during technical interviews and hiring.

## Use cases
- prepare for a technical interview as a software engineer
- find interview questions that test fundamentals instead of framework trivia
- build a rubric for assessing developer candidates when hiring
- identify which evergreen skills to learn to grow as an engineer
- evaluate my own software engineering skill gaps
- avoid framework-specific questions in developer interviews

## When to choose
- you are hiring or interviewing software engineers and want framework-agnostic assessment criteria
- you want a checklist of durable, portable engineering skills and best practices
- you are a developer planning long-term skill development beyond specific tech stacks

## When to avoid
- you need framework- or language-specific tutorials and documentation
- you need an interactive course or exercises rather than a reference list
- you need a tool or library rather than a written skills checklist

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: technical-interviews, hiring, best-practices, clean-code, software-engineering, career, checklist

## Member repositories
- romenrg/evergreen-skills-developers (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.073462+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:50.298941+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/romenrg/evergreen-skills-developers (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.073462+00:00, sha 036816f1961e)
  - homepage: https://www.romenrg.com/blog/2018/12/29/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:37.438319+00:00, sha a97e9facac01)
  - site_page: https://www.romenrg.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:37.448279+00:00, sha a4566c6a3a10)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.