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Actually, effective and reliable communication is the number one thing most all companies are looking for in engineers. No one wants a developer that is resistant to daily peer cooperation. A developer that can't clearly explain their decisions to their stakeholders is just about useless. A line item about communication is almost always present on a dev job listing's requirements, much more common than any stack/language flavor of the month.

Code is easy, being able to communicate is not. We engineers love to loathe non-tech people who talk too much while producing nothing tangible. Even more though, effective engineers loathe their peers that don't talk enough.