Table Stakes: What is expected of a modern software developer?
Table stakes is a bit of business jargon, loosely taken from poker, that is used to describe the minimum offering it takes to be in the market. The essential features or attributes that have to be there for customers to even consider buying a product or service, the basic capability a team or department needs to demonstrate to be credible. I’ve used this as the title of this article as I’ve been reflecting on how our current batch of interns have fared over the last year and what could we could do to make things easier for the those joining us this time round.