There are two more factors that compound the problem in tech:
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Few engineering programs emphasize team projects, and those that do rarely provide any training for how to deal with typical team situations. People leave college without a toolkit for interpersonal work relationships - and sometimes with self-propogating stereotypes of the challenges of working with other people.
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CS tends to attract people interested in working alone, or who have a preference for working with machines. At it’s core it’s not a field that initially attracts people for their social skills.
I don’t buy that the problem is the age of the industry - working in teams is hard everywhere.