Comment by lolive

13 hours ago

Be careful, engineers, when interacting with soft skill experts not to join their reality distortion field where it’s all about coordination, alignment, bizness strategy, clever planning. Whereas the real stuffs are just implémentation details, quickly solved.

In the end, they might convince you that 2+2=5.

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ambicapter  12 hours ago

The trouble isn't that they would convince me with their reality distortion (they don't), the issue is that they are satisfied with their "progress" while I'm still asking crucial questions (which they ignore, b/c they don't see the importance).

  • kube-system  11 hours ago

    Part of the soft skills that are useful for a developer is being able to frame your crucial questions in a way that makes their importance relevant to their world.

    • marcosdumay  1 hour ago

      Remember, technical workers, you must grind all you soft skills in addition to the technical ones, so that you can successfully interact with those people hired exclusively to use their soft skills.

    • hypeatei  8 hours ago

      Perhaps soft skills are too squishy and/or broad of a term to be useful then. It seems like these discussions always go "maybe you, as the developer, just need to learn how to do soft skills properly?" in response to business types exhibiting an undesirable behavior. Sure, smooth talking and playing into someones personality might be more successful (albeit with a lot more hot air), but all of you are supposed to be working towards a goal. If someone gets hung up because you weren't smooth enough, I would think they're a bad faith actor who doesn't actually want to get something done.

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sandeepkd  5 hours ago

Its never about the soft skill experts being able to convince the engineers, the challenge if any, is always about them being able to convince the "leadership"

CrulesAll  12 hours ago

Wait until you try to explain basic concepts to such people! What's annoying is HR employing more of these people and not understanding why the dial does not move. What is baffling and infuriating is when such people are put in management. MBAs will destroy Western business eventually(those who tag an MBA onto a STEM qualification are not as bad but still infected.)