> Personally, I don't know any awesome engineers who sucked at school. To me this simply shows a lack of life experience. One of the best engineers I know left

> Personally, I don't know any awesome engineers who sucked at school. To me this simply shows a lack of life experience. One of the best engineers I know left school before graduating. Has ADHD, was a bit messed up with drugs wrong crowd etc at that time. He’s also a genius, had his life together for over 20 years and a very senior person at my current company. Why should some bad decisions over 20 years ago have any relevance to the value he’d provide now? Why should anything you did over 20 years ago have any relevance, good or bad? This is unquestionably yet another example of ageism in an industry that is riddled with it.