Work on your social skills. Past a certain technical competence threshold, social skills are 60-75% of the job. Companies no longer want good programmers; they

Work on your social skills. Past a certain technical competence threshold, social skills are 60-75% of the job. Companies no longer want good programmers; they want redundant arrays of average programmers, which means that if you are an average engineer who is oriented toward collaboration and communication you are on the fast track to success in this field.