Comment by ModernMech
10 hours ago
Problem is they don’t know how to express themselves and many people, especially those interested in tech, don’t want to learn.
I can’t tell you how many times I have a CS student in my office for advising and they tell me they only want to take technical courses, because anything reading or writing or psychology or history based is “soft”, unrelated to their major, and a waste of their time.
I’ve spent years telling them critical reading and expressive writing skills are very important to being a functioning adult, but they insist what they need to know can only be found in the Engineering college.
Much of my time at work is reading through quickly typed messages from my boss and understanding exactly what questions I need to ask in order to make it easy for him to answer clearly.
Engineers who lack soft skills cannot be effective in team environments.
Being able (and willing) to write shit down is a superpower among 10x programmers who think "code is self-documenting" and don't even add comments.
Haha. I always say that I'm only a good IC not because of my technical skills but because of my communication skills and my willingness to, as Steven Covey says, seek first to understand.