[greenyoda]

Good points. To which I'd add:

> My boss was able to implement a feature using Node.js and 20 lines of code that I thought that would take me at least 200 (he’d never programmed in JavaScript before).

That just means that their boss has more experience (perhaps a lot more experience) than they have. Being an inexperienced programmer is something we all went through at some point in our careers, and doesn't mean we were bad programmers. I'd say a bad programmer is someone who doesn't want to learn new things or listen to advice on how they can improve themselves.