> 8. Do not be adamant about your views.

I worked at a MAANG where this was not the case. The pecking order of "seniority" was who was the most "right" and who could poke the most holes in everyone else's ideas while denying others' contributions while bragging about how essential and important their work was in a semi-agro manner that discouraged dissent and curiosity.

In my view, marks of intelligence include lacking strong biases, comfort with ambiguity, be willing to propose hypotheses, experiment, gather data, and be proven wrong.