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ghurtado on Oct 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are A Distraction...

I don't know why you got downvoted. I'm a software engineer and I identify with every sentence in your comment. I suspect I'm far from the only one.

gerbilly on Oct 27, 2016 [–]

I'd go further and say that many introverts self select for jobs like programmer, researcher etc that require deep sustained focus.

I would bet that introverts are _over represented_ in tech, but of course they put us all in open office plans.

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