Google finds that STEM skills are not the most important skills

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It is more accurate to say that Google values soft skills in its bosses and managers more than their technical skills. This being true in no way invalidates the high value of STEM skills for the rank and file employees who are managed by those with better soft skills. Look at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html which says the Google study isn't about employees, it is about the managers the employees report to. The people running the company need people skills. That shouldn't surprise anybody. Most people at Google are not bosses or managers. Who do you think has a better chance of getting hired at Google? A computer science major from Stanford who made all A's in artificial intelligence and stochastic inference courses or the anthropology major from State University who took math for liberal arts majors?