It's so weird that women automatically get placed into these "social judgement" roles as if they're superior at it or more empathetic then men, then men get are automatically assigned the more technical questions.

I mean you're getting into sort of sexist territory here where it's perfectly fine to say women are more socially intelligent then men but it's not okay to say men have better general intelligence. Let's just ignore this etiquette for now because it distracts from the facts.

Neither gender has enough ability to make a social judgement call based off of interviews, there simply isn't enough information. You need to spend a lot of time with someone to really "GET" who they are. Any call made during an interview is largely a shot in the dark. Even if women were slightly superior to men at judging these things an interview simply isn't enough to make valid call for anyone but a mind reader.

Women though are very very judgemental to a degree greater than men. They have a higher degree of paranoia as well and they typically end up being a little more alarmist then they need to be. Things like walking home alone in the dark and other activities with low probability of danger they just are more reactive to it for various reasons. I would actually have a slight bias against what women think due to this. During these interviews there's a tendency for women to end up raising red flags where no red flags exist.

Either way, Jessica occupies the same zone as, Obamas wife, or Bill Gates's wife. That kind of thing. There's no real raw qualification here and the automatic assignment of her as the "social" guide for the team is likely only done because she's a woman or because she's non-technical and that's the only role she could fill because she's only their by virtue of being Pauls' partner.