One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Sometimes the key thing to understand is that page load speed and battery usage matters a lot as you pointed out. Sometimes it's completely different though.
Empathy is powerful but it is neither good or bad. I have female friends who were in a toxic relationship, and they were fucked up because the dude was good at using empathy to manipulate them.
I think the problem with empathy is that HR-speak in english speaking countries invented this incredibly stupid term of "soft skills" and put it into it. One more thing where you can evaluate people between 1 and 10. I'm being sarcastic.
Empathy is neither soft nor a skill.
It's very hard, and it's not a skill, it's something that you do or it's a personnality trait.
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One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Empathy really boils down to the principle Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood
Sometimes the key thing to understand is that page load speed and battery usage matters a lot as you pointed out. Sometimes it's completely different though.
Empathy is powerful but it is neither good or bad. I have female friends who were in a toxic relationship, and they were fucked up because the dude was good at using empathy to manipulate them.
I think the problem with empathy is that HR-speak in english speaking countries invented this incredibly stupid term of "soft skills" and put it into it. One more thing where you can evaluate people between 1 and 10. I'm being sarcastic.
Empathy is neither soft nor a skill.
It's very hard, and it's not a skill, it's something that you do or it's a personnality trait.
After reading your comment I'm realizing "empathy" has even more to unpack than I thought. You've got a lot of great points in there.
There are great books on the subject, but as I pointed out in this article, I stumbled on them while learning how to dance
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