Love this.
They seem very successful:
> I am a principal research scientist at MongoDB Research. Ex-AWS. On leave as a computer science and engineering professor at SUNY Buffalo.
My personal feeling is using a more widely applicable pronoun is more respectful, in general, so I use 'they' frequently, especially referring to people I don't know and so where I don't know their identity.
https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-the... is interesting reading.
Maybe the key here is a good work / team culture? I can also imagine some places or contexts in which the work might be more invisible / harder to attribute to specific individuals.
In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.