Not only that, but software engineering at the very least sits at the intersection of people & things. Very few people build things for the sake of things, and

Not only that, but software engineering at the very least sits at the intersection of people & things. Very few people build things for the sake of things, and I think it's a fair assumption that "people-oriented" thinking, when building for people, may have business benefits that aren't as simply quantifiable as "Candidate A more assertively diagrammed a binary search tree on a whiteboard than Candidate B".