That is indeed bad. I've seen stellar coders that were terrible at their job (unable to communicate with a client, to work in team, to be autonomous, to be prag

That is indeed bad. I've seen stellar coders that were terrible at their job (unable to communicate with a client, to work in team, to be autonomous, to be pragmatic...). Unless your part in the interview process is explicitely to only look at the coding skills, in which case that's perfectly OK I suppose!