Ask HN: Why have we normalized jobs and soft skills bullshit so much?
5•thomasjeff1•1h ago
Comments
al_borland•3m ago
What do you mean by this?
Soft skills have value. I saw an amazing dev let go because he lacked the soft skills to explain his project to upper management in a way they could understand and care about.
A month after he left, those same managers told us to build the thing that just went in the trash when he was let go. So they did care, it was valuable, but he struggled with the communication and it cost him his job, and created a ton of work for all of us who are left.
al_borland•3m ago
Soft skills have value. I saw an amazing dev let go because he lacked the soft skills to explain his project to upper management in a way they could understand and care about.
A month after he left, those same managers told us to build the thing that just went in the trash when he was let go. So they did care, it was valuable, but he struggled with the communication and it cost him his job, and created a ton of work for all of us who are left.