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by fiveoak 2965 days ago
The importance of soft skills is underrated. Technical skills are important, sure, but I would much rather work with an "average", friendly teammate than an insufferable genius.
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^this this this! Hard skills can be learned, good soft skills are more difficult to incubate.

All the best companies I've worked for have had a bias toward hiring people who will easily fit in. People with small egos, people who want to help, people who show up.

And the insufferable genius often produces shit code anyway since he has no concept of how to work together with other humans / write code for teams.