• djackson 22568 (12/2/2013)


    Well before others start harping on your opinion, let me say that I think you nailed it. I hate listening to people claim that "people skills" are more important, that anyone can learn technical skills, which is just one example of the issue.

    On the specific topic of Mongo DB, YouTube has a video that I thought was funny when I saw it some time ago...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJeuxI7kHo

    You're conflating two things. The fact that people skills are more important, which I believe, doesn't imply that you choose employees without technical skills or experience. It's just saying that if I get two experienced people, technical skills rank second in how I judge them. It's not that they don't count, but that I'll take slightly less technical experience over much better people skills. However, I can teach you some technical stuff if you don't know it. I can't teach you to learn how to work with others very easily.

    If both are really close, I'd have to make some judgement call.

    The problem comes in when you replace technical skills with people skills.