People have forgotten how to train their core social and psychological skills like resilience and confidence. Unfortunately, these are not things we are born wi

People have forgotten how to train their core social and psychological skills like resilience and confidence. Unfortunately, these are not things we are born with or can code our way out of. These are things we have to train very hard at similar to how martial artists or athletes approach their training. The thing most programmers and knowledge workers in general are missing is true belief in their own skills (you have been doing this how long? come on snap out of it) and the resilience that comes from rejection after rejection, and failure after failure. After a certain point in your experience you should come to understand that raw skills are not really the end all, be all. If you are not the guy then you are not the guy no matter how many degrees you have. Sometimes the guy with the PhD from MIT is not the right guy because he doesn't connect with the rest of the team, or the vision, or whatever, simple as that. Also, if you're testing only for specific skill sets rather than aptitude and interest then you already failed as a hiring manager.