Ask HN: Should I put "intangible" skills on my resume/portfolio?

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I'm not sure if intangibles in the right word, thus the quotes, but do skills like self-teaching, task prioritization, requirements analysis, time estimation and solving problems with the subconscious mind belong on a developers resume?

I feel like these are very valuable skills but a lot of people will see them as wishy-washy or non-concrete.

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You work them in to your descriptions of past positions. Like task prioritization is something you can mention in the context of a job "prioritized maintenance and bug-fixes against new features to deliver X..." I you just assert it as part of a lost it won't count for anything.

It seems the only thing that matters these days is if you can grind 2-3 leetcode medium or hard questions in several interview sessions.

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