I used to scoff at people skills too. I don’t any more. Getting thousands of employees to all work towards a common goal is EXTREMELY difficult. Not to menti

I used to scoff at people skills too. I don’t any more. Getting thousands of employees to all work towards a common goal is EXTREMELY difficult. Not to mention selling it to customers, investors, etc. It doesn’t matter how technically proficient you are - you will fail if you don’t have people skills. And people skills are far harder to measure, so we basically filter by success (which everyone knows is imperfect). And there are far, far fewer people with the kind of people skills needed than people who can program a computer. Hence, pay is far higher.