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Empathy in programming
What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
How does empathy help you build better software?
Why is empathy important for working on a team?
Describe a situation in which your ability to empathize with a colleague or teammate was helpful.
When do you find it most difficult to be empathetic in professional settings? How can you improve your skills when faced with these scenarios?
Empathy has helped me connect with other people and make friends. It can help you make better software because you'll be trying to write it so others will be able to understand it. Empathy is important for working on a team because if you and your peers are unable to understand eachothers thinking it will be impossible to understand eachothers code and why they wrote it the way they did. I've used empathy in school when trying to describe homework in a way that my classmates would understand so there was no confusion. It's most difficult to be empathetic in a professional setting whe nyou and your coworkers views on a topic are completely different and it makes no sense to you the way they think. The best way to just keep asking questions about different topics until you're able to get a general idea.
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