Yep .. it is always painful to hear stuff like "if you don't use [insert whatever is hype right now]; then you are not a real engineer" coming from a colleague.

Yep .. it is always painful to hear stuff like "if you don't use [insert whatever is hype right now]; then you are not a real engineer" coming from a colleague. People that have spent their careers in the silicon valley have a very distorted view of tech.