<p><pre><code>    The “Product Programmer” and “Technical Programmer” profiles are identical,
    except one is motivated by product design, and the other by solving hard
    programming problems.
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This is great.<p>I&#x27;ve struggled with trying to define the difference between the great systems engineers I meet and the engineers who make great products (sometimes at the expense of all elegance under the hood).<p>This sums it up nicely... it&#x27;s where the focus is. I&#x27;m surrounded by engineers focusing on systems programming, but I don&#x27;t think of myself as similar to them, I&#x27;ve always been end user obsessed and customer focused. It&#x27;s nice to see this difference acknowledged.