[riffraff]

While I think coding experience matters, I've seen a lot of people with years of experience that never worked in environments favouring quality, who write functioning but very ugly code.

What is 100% true, imo, is that you get better with experience if you are exposed to good practice . This can come from reading other people's code, getting reviews of yours, but also reading books about design or videos or talks...

Just coding alone will help but won't be enough, again, imho.

[plutonorm]

What I've found over 15 years is that 'good practice' various from place to place. All I'm really doing each new job is learning the local religion.