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by wheybags 1442 days ago
Framed another way: is it better for your long term growth to work with colleagues who can teach you new skills, or to try to wrangle a dysfunctional team?

IMO it depends on what you want to learn. If you want to develop your technical skills, it's definitely good to go somewhere that you're not the best dev in the room. Wrangling a team is more management / soft skills.

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> is it better for your long term growth to work with colleagues who can teach you new skills, or to try to wrangle a dysfunctional team?

Good point, although I'd consider "wrangle a dysfunctional team" as a skill, granted the team is only dysfunctional because of good management, not if they are inherently bad programmers, too big egos or whatever.

> IMO it depends on what you want to learn

Yeah, that's a good point. That nuance in my comment was missing to thanks for adding that.