"Hard skills in programming and software development for us are really valuable," says Hawes. Curtis adds that being highly numerate and having good analytical skills is increasingly important.

“编程和软件开发的硬性技能是我们很看重的，”霍斯讲道。柯蒂斯补充讲道，优秀的计算和分析能力正日益变得重要起来。

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Equally important are the engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP), particularly test-driven development, simplicity of design, pair programming and re-factoring (upgrading and simplifying) software code.

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