Getting a job as a programmer is less about being a savant programmer and more about your soft-skills like communication and connections, at least if you're aim

Getting a job as a programmer is less about being a savant programmer and more about your soft-skills like communication and connections, at least if you're aiming to work in a team environment. It helps to be a great programmer in order to get hired, but I never found that to be a requirement, you can always teach people to be great programmers. But if they are not great at communication or have other "personal faults" like easily irritable or arrogant, it's much harder to help them improve without spending a disproportionate amount of time helping them.