"Emotional intelligence" is what they put in an Inc article title when the news day is slow. It's something founders and highly-sociable managers stress about,

"Emotional intelligence" is what they put in an Inc article title when the news day is slow. It's something founders and highly-sociable managers stress about, but developers? They're not selling their empathy or soft skills, they're solving an issue. Thousands of construction workers and UPS workers probably also have poor "emotional intelligence", but that doesn't stop them from doing their job effectively. Unless you're particularly sociopathic, there's a good chance your social skills aren't the bottleneck for job performance. I won't derail the conversation from people who want to take a serious stab at it, but I think so-called "emotional intelligence" is a crock.