Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
by repolfx on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:30AM
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Your industrial design example was an anecdote. There are people who work for me who aren't passionate about the specific area we work in, they just like writing software. You seem to think passion is literally a job requirement, but I've never seen that. Employers like to see interest and keenness but they do hire people who don't have it, of course.
Your hypothesis only fits 2 of the 3 data points I provided.
Software is the only non-customer-facing job that I know of where passion is considered relevant at hiring time. The mathematicians I've known have all been somewhere between "moderately stoic" and "downright antisocial" and had no trouble getting hired, despite mathematics having all of the features you attribute to programming.