>experienced engineers don’t want to work with people who think like the author of this article

- has opinions on interface design

- isn't afraid to be wrong publicly

- is brash on a personal blog

I dunno, this is mostly positive. I'd have to see how well they'd adapt to the much different context and goals of one of our design reviews, but this isn't an immediate red flag. There's a million ways to be bad at a job. I'll give them enough rope to hang themselves in a serious conversation rather than invent the idea that someone would be an unworkable perfectionist professionally just from being a type purist on the internet.