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by PragmaticPulp 1546 days ago
68 year old engineers have usually retired long ago by choice. Engineering pays well. There aren't many 65-70+ year old engineers who are even still interested in working, let alone keeping up with modern technologies.

Anyone sticking around that long at a famous company is almost certainly in it for the love of all things computers, not because they need the money.