Comment by jcalvinowens

> We interview 59 expert Microsoft software engineers to inductively understand what software engineering expertise entailed. We survey 1,926 more expert Microsoft software engineers to understand the relative importance of the 45 attributes of expertise derived from interviews, as well as to understand the influence of context on rating

I'm sorry... but only interviewing engineers from one company makes this a complete joke. I stopped reading after I saw that.

I don't understand how anybody could take any conclusions here seriously when they're obviously so fundamentally biased.