From their first day in the classroom, computer science students are nudged to value individual successes over team victories. While the vast majority of employers value essential 'soft skills' even more highly than a candidate’s college major, hiring managers place communication and problem-solving skills among the top-five competencies computer science students are missing. — Miami Herald/TNS
Any tech breakthrough is almost always a joint effort. To add a single feature to an iPhone app, teams of front-end engineers, user experience designers and graphic designers must work with cybersecurity specialists, back-end developers and iOS developers – just for starters.
That means that today’s best engineers are prodigious collaborators and communicators. And yet we still train too many prospective coders to work alone.
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