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Adrian B.G.

Yes, I exaggerated on purpose of course, I was preparing my election speech :)).

But ... I think you are biased, if you go to conferences and social gatherings you see the developers that "pass" a certain threshold of ... don't know the term, I call it "they hatched". From my experience these devs are not representative (in my small circles are < 15%), hopefully I'm wrong and in a few years I will contradict myself (by meeting a lot more devs).

I cannot not put this stereotype to rest unfortunately, most of the technical people I know they are introverts, they do not want to engage with others and so they do not care/or "train" their communication skills. They do however communicate very well in their teams, but that is it, nothing outside of their comfort zone. Only the minimal interaction to do their jobs.

I haven't properly studied this area of physiology (yet), but I'm pretty sure a "lot" of devs are attracted by this job specially because they have to deal more with "machines" and less with "people".

Now I noticed the opposite too, once "they hatch", and meet other peers, they change their behavior at 180 degrees, they speak about their work with passion, they start to involve in projects.