It's okay to have some of those traits, but I've also experienced colleagues which were basically comic book versions of some those types to the point that they

It's okay to have some of those traits, but I've also experienced colleagues which were basically comic book versions of some those types to the point that they ended up being impossible to work with. While I think that the author could have done a better job at humanizing the engineers, I think the post in general offers some quite reasonable suggestions on how to help the engineers help themselves (rather than traditional micromanagement suggestions).