Evaluating interpersonal skills

At this point, I've conducted thousands of interviews, and if there's one thing I've learnt, it's the vital importance of evaluating interpersonal skills. This might be a blind spot for us in tech — we inhabit a sphere where the ability to code, to understand systems, to nail down quantitative abilities often shadows other key areas of competency. This is especially the case for engineers like me, whose lives are dominated by logic and idea, often leading to a deficiency in interpersonal skills. The bias also comes from the fact that these technical skills are so much easier to evaluate than interpersonal ones. A factual question has a clear-cut right or wrong answer. Interpersonal skills, however, are a labyrinth of subtleties, shades of gray, and subjectivity. But ignoring them is a big and common mistake. Research (1, 2) has consistently confirmed the critical role of interpersonal skills in building strong teams that synergize, as opposed to collections of individuals. This is even

At this point, I've conducted thousands of interviews, and if there's one thing I've learnt, it's the vital importance of evaluating interpersonal skills. This might be a blind spot for us in tech — we inhabit a sphere where the ability to code, to understand systems, to nail down quantitative abilities often shadows other key areas of competency. This is especially the case for engineers like me, whose lives are dominated by logic and idea, often leading to a deficiency in interpersonal skills. The bias also comes from the fact that these technical skills are so much easier to evaluate than i