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Thank you for putting software engineering into the soft skill bucket, but I think the word soft skill sort of means social/interpersonal skills. What you descr
by wrnr 4y ago
Thank you for putting software engineering into the soft skill bucket, but I think the word soft skill sort of means social/interpersonal skills. What you describe is more the difference between open and closed problems.
- Jensson 4y agoDefining soft skills so that they are only social skills is just the bias people have against technical skills. It comes from the biased view that all programmers do is equivalent to solving middle school math problems over and over, so there is no creativity in it. It is also a redundant definition, if you say that soft == social and hard == technical, then why not just say social and technical skills? However any experienced programmer knows that there is much more to programming than just knowing a language and frameworks, so to us it makes perfect sense to talk about soft technical skills even though a manager might think that we only have hard skills that can be jotted down as a list of checkboxes. So I think that breaking this misconception is very important, there are plenty of soft technical skills to care about when evaluating a hire!