People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a>