Soft skills like communication and teamwork are often praised as essential, but I think they're overrated compared to technical expertise. In my last job, we hired a guy with perfect interpersonal skills but weak coding ability — he struggled for months and slowed the whole team down. Hard skills get the work done, while soft skills can be learned on the fly, so why do employers keep prioritizing them? Maybe the real issue is that soft skills are easier to measure in interviews than actual competence.