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I don't agree - it's about equal A certain level of soft skills and attitude is required to function as a member of a team. A certain level of technical skill
by c2h5oh 3y ago
I don't agree - it's about equal
A certain level of soft skills and attitude is required to function as a member of a team.
A certain level of technical skills is required to do the job.
Both have a minimum bar to clear and you shouldn't hire an asshole genius just like you shouldn't inept social butterfly or whatever the genius equivalent is for soft skills.
Once the bar is cleared you look at being better than required minimum in both aspects.
- kenjackson 3y agoThe author didn’t say the aren’t equal, at least, just technical is overrated. And I’d tend to agree. We historical weigh technical skills at like 95% of the assessment. It probably should be more like 60% and as we’ve moved in that direction we’ve had much better hires.
- c2h5oh 3y agoThat's a flawed way of looking at it. A perfect tech skill candidate would have 60% in the bag before you looked at soft skills getting them close to a pass. You have to either have hard minimums on both or multiply them instead of adding.
- scarletink 3y agoYou've summarized it nicely :)