Its a question of degree. Yes you have to have 'some' people skills to be a programmer in a team but its a small amount of skill. In a group of people that prob

Its a question of degree. Yes you have to have 'some' people skills to be a programmer in a team but its a small amount of skill. In a group of people that probably has more in common with you than any other group you have to interact with in life. But its much less people skills then a manager, in meetings most of the day resolving issues that are much higher level that involve different departments etc. So your average programming job is well within the social skills of the vast majority of Men. When your evaluating a pool of potential hires its going to be 95% finding the best programmer and then the last 5% is making sure there not crazy or a drug addict etc. Its never going to be the case that you start out with a pool of resumes from people with really nice personal bios and try and find out which ones can program a computer.