You’re waiting at the front-desk of Google’s campus in Boulder, Colorado, waiting for your coding interview to start. Let’s tackle the age-old question: Which is more important, hard or soft skills for programmers?

In fact, if you could only have one type of skill, hard skills would be more important.

The tech world moves at breakneck speed, and if you’re not continuously leveling up your hard skills, you’re gonna get left in the dust.

Imagine your hard skills are the length of a rectangle, while your soft skills represent the width.

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