I jumped straight the the Personality section and sure got a nice dopamine hit reading the list of attributes of what makes a great engineer.
It is a hard truth though that a lot of those personality traits lead to behaviours that are not aligned with small to medium enterprise (SME) needs, particularly ones that hire engineers and yet are not, at their core (in their couer) tech companies.
The big, great tech companies have their business units ride on the coat tails of great engineers and the engineers thrive in a stable maximum.
Great product companies can have great engineers fulfilling product needs, but the long term trend, without constant and frankly impossible levels org vigilance, will be for their engineering culture to devolve into mediocrity. SME product companies don’t stand a chance.