Integrity
Edited: Wednesday 14 February 2024

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Definition

  • in Arabic: إستقامة أو نزاهة، وعكسها النفاق
  • Acting in adherence to your principles and values (value system)
  • Contributes to your reputation as an engineer

Example

  • While choosing a tool/framework
    • if the principle is: “Best tool for the job”
      • Does that mean a tool is better if you know it?
      • What about hearing about one tech and not the other?
      • What about you liking one and not the other?
      • Liking can poison your decision making process and reduce your integrity

Affects

  • Honesty and transparency
  • Code quality
  • Accountability
  • Overall Reputation

Conflict of principles

  • Speed vs Quality

Relations

  • Assumes free-will
  • Assumes a clear values system
  • Assumes a dichotomy

Integrity tests for work

  • Identifies employees with low integrity score
  • Assumes that people with low integrity:
    • do more dishonest behavior
    • finds reasons to do dishonest behavior
    • thinks other are more likely to commit crimes
    • do more impulsive behavior
    • thinks society should do harsher punishment to deviance

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