I find these articles go a bit too far in their rhetoric. This one alleges that the most important factor is that "senior engineers remain humble and curious".

I find these articles go a bit too far in their rhetoric. This one alleges that the most important factor is that "senior engineers remain humble and curious". Really? Is that what you're looking for in a job interview? You're going to knock back an otherwise exceptional candidate with twenty years of domain-specific experience for only having 50th percentile humbleness?