[busterarm]

One of the best engineers that I've ever met is fundamentally unhireable due to the severity of his personality. He's not even a bad guy -- he's very helpful always but unfortunately everything he says just sounds smug or sanctimonious. He can't help himself.

It's been sad watching his career struggles and knowing the quality of his work if you can just keep him away from stakeholders and meetings in general

[gopher_space]

One of the nice things about the old "nerds-only programmer's pit" style of team leadership is that it provides a refuge for people that want part of their world filtered out to get work done. Quite a bit more mandatory social engagement as an engineer these days. Lots of requesting your face.

[pixelrevision]

It was also better for the really quiet ones. There’s some really great programmers who can put out amazing stuff if you can keep them away from the agile/stakeholder circus.

[gopher_space]

I mean how many of us have a door we can close and no movement in our peripheral vision when we're in the office?

[quickthrower2]

Would him explaining this to a team before he works on it help. So they don’t take it personally. External stakeholders is different but most of the time devs arw shield from them (for better or worse).