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What are the best ways to improve soft skills in dealing with real worklife scenarios? I mean we all have learned it theoretically but miss applying the principles in real life. Are some people naturally cunning or is it something acquired? Any suggestions/help is appreciated :) #careerbuilder #careerbuilder #tech #career
Realizing no one noticed you saying something weird or no one remembers or thinks about it went a long way in helping me learn to just relax a bit and not be so anxious.
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Talent is a Senior Principal engineer stealing ideas from conference and making a fool out of a team by making them work on it. That too after knowing it’s already done by someone. Top of that getting $300k for it.
Well one thing i learned from people at top and seniors in my years of work so far is that it doesn’t matter how much i myself work, its more about how much i can make juniors work and manage to take credit for it and be able to talk about it! This applies to both technical and non technical roles. “ Individual Contributor” is just a myth. :)
True.
not to forget ‘collaboration’
Check out soft skills engineering podcast.
Saying and writing "thank you" , "congratulations " emails , fake appreciation even though you dont mean it repeatedly is one important soft skill needed in the industry P.s i do understand what being polite & caring is!
This! Fake appreciation is HUGE! When I actually asked not to be given "fake appreciation," my FB Mgmt had a fit!
@fireworker Same story here. When I solved an NP-complete problem in NVIDIA, and received not even a thank you, I asked my manager: where is the appreciation? His reply was that I am just doing my job, why he should thank me? When I complained higher (about other issues), he filed underperforming rating to HR. He had a very strange career: was hired as a manager without any prior management experience. This reveals an interesting picture of the US corporate culture: people who interview you and require you to have a set of perfect soft skills have none themselves. It's just a ruse to make you overwork without complaining and make their life easier.
Ass licking is a good skill to have. Most people I see succeeding are very good at manipulating, liking ass and con artists
Thought this thread would end up being a good one. But then, this is Blind. Mostly bullshit whining and next to no solid advice. I’ll contribute, find a mentor who has the qualities you know you need. For me the ability to not react out of emotion and hold my tongue is a valuable skill some of my Sr co-workers are helping me with.
Experience
Unfortunately kids on blind will laugh at this comment and feel that their leetcode skill is all they need, to make 40-50 year olds obsolete.
Unfortunately those 40-50 year Olds are also being asked leetcode questions.