Yes and no. It's true that collaboration is important when working on a team, and that social skills are underrated in engineering. On the other hand, the job i

Yes and no. It's true that collaboration is important when working on a team, and that social skills are underrated in engineering. On the other hand, the job is fundamentally not very social. Collaboration in engineering means breaking a large problem down into smaller pieces, and assigning those pieces to individual engineers to work on by themselves for hours or days at a time.