It is tangentially related to cheating and interview, but if my first internship in the field told me anything, it's that your ability to sell yourself is often

It is tangentially related to cheating and interview, but if my first internship in the field told me anything, it's that your ability to sell yourself is often more important than your actual ability. My internship manager was a dev with a lot of experience and he was the one doing 90% of the job, but he was not very good when it came to communication toward the higher ups. His co-worker on the other hand was the exact opposite: Not a very good dev, but a very skillful sweet talker. Guess who got raised more ? Anecdotally, I have seen this with my friends and co-worker from school. The one who were good at marketing themselves often went further faster in hierarchy than the skillful ones who had trouble marketing themselves.