I am curious why this is phrased as a binary question.. I get you do not want to interact with people at all above what is bare minimum required.. but what is b

I am curious why this is phrased as a binary question.. I get you do not want to interact with people at all above what is bare minimum required.. but what is bare minimum in your mind? You are tasked with solving business problems and most of your effort is in understanding and modelling the problem correctly. How do you understand the problem in the first place? Do you talk to the business team, end users etc? Is this part of your bare minimum? You get struck and want to double check with someone. How do you do it? Is this also bare minimum? Someone else gets struck and want to check with you or they do not understand why you solved something a particular way.. This also needs interaction. Is this also bare minimum? If you take all of these together, you do interact quite a bit with your coworkers to do the bare minimum to do your job. I do not know what is specially transactional about any of these, but if you try to be pleasant when you interact, that is all that is asked for. No one is asking you to invest time to build relationships beyond work. However, if you do build such relationships, you might find it useful and pleasant in long run. Maybe you might be looking for a job or your team might be hiring. You need a recommendation on something you are not an expert at or as simple as you are visiting a new place and would just want to socialize.