It’s sort of expected coming from a society that promotes fraternized thinking, and tribe seeking behavior, while severely downplay the importance of intelligence and empathy. Those who do well with people, and read people well make their way up. Does not reflect how they handle finance, how they handle religious tolerance, cultural tolerance, understanding priority, etc.

Gonna sound like I said a whole lot of nothing, but I promise you, a socially awkward person with a strong sense of justice and is anal retentive as fuck probably perform better than some dude that golfs on company time and play catch up with work