alt Hacker NewsVery often in my experience, people with too many soft skills and too little hard skills are at best dead weights, at worst con men, which are a special kind of asshole you REALLY don't want to deal with.
Of course the best is to have both hard/soft skills, which is not as rare as people assume.
>Very often in my experience, people with too many soft skills and too little hard skills are at best dead weights, at worst con men
No, these are the people who should be moved into management positions. They can spend time on all the soft-skill stuff that ICs don't want to spend time on, like dealing with upper management, leading meetings, etc. They don't need to have the best hard skills, just enough to understand at a higher level and communicate with others in and out of the organization, and they can refer to the experts in their teams when they need more detail.