Why your career has stalled: Soft Skills for Hard Coders

Simon Hargreaves
Nov 3 · 5 min read
Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash

Let’s face it; a lot of personality traits that make you good at your job won’t always make you good at other things. As a coder, you are very good at detail, working on your own, long periods focusing on a singular task and decomposing problems into logical steps for machines to understand. These are fundamentally useful skills in the world of software development, but unfortunately, they…

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