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<p>It absolutely is communication skills in addition to being able to work well with others. As an engineer, you are designing new products, coming up with new ideas, and generally just doing a bunch of things that require you to communicate your ideas to others effectively in writing and verbally in order to make the product work. If you have poor communication skills, you could be the “best” engineer in the world and still be a terrible engineer because no one knows what you are doing and can’t build on what you do.</p>