At least at my company it's hard to get hired to a programming position on soft skills alone. I've interviewed some very nice people who ended up not getting hired due to trouble whiteboarding.

As far as I can tell no one I work with is a an influencer on insta-twit. Some coworkers are better than others, but on the whole they all know the front end of a for loop from the back and are willing to learn.

And I end up spending way more time not writing code than writing it.