ISTPs learn by doing. They are at their best with their hands on a real system — debugging, repairing, or optimizing — and have low tolerance for meetings that don't change anything.
Strengths in the workplace
Roles ISTPs tend to thrive in
DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Mobile Engineer, QA Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Backend Engineer
Technical support and customer-facing engineering roles. Combines troubleshooting craft with the soft skill of staying patient when someone is having the worst day of their week.