> I have not found the over 40 engineers I've worked with to be like that. Keep the survivorship bias in mind. It would make sense within that per theory that

> I have not found the over 40 engineers I've worked with to be like that. Keep the survivorship bias in mind. It would make sense within that per theory that the engineers in their 40s who have both hard skills are soft skills are the ones to be the most likely to stay employed. Which is why those ones you end up meeting would be more like that. And that would also align with the fact that many former engineers ended up leaving the field (whether voluntary or not) by that time in their life.