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> And, at least in my job, engineers spend a whole lot more time dealing with people than with code.

I'd say something is wrong then. If your business depends on shipping code why are your developers talking to people most of the time?

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Business depends on solving problems. Code is a medium for implementing solutions. I can count the number of times I've needed to put my CS degree to use on one hand, but knowing to whom, when, how to ask the right questions has been worth far more.

How do you ship code when working with a team without communicating with them?

I'm not sure how you got from "less than half of engineers time spent on communication overhead" to "no communication whatsoever". Something is terribly broken if the people primarily responsible for execution take more time to communicate about a task than to actually do it.

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