[Aqueous]

When you say oversmart are you taking about people who believe they are very smart or people who are actually very smart?

Your ‘no experience’ comment makes it seem like the former. And if they are not actually smart, you can probably demonstrate their ineptitude through simple dialog and insightful problem-solving, assuming you are smarter than them.

Also I’m not sure I see a huge distinction between intelligence and experience in this industry. People who are ‘smart’ but don’t have experience tend to do really stupid things like trying to reinvent things that already exist in a better form, or design and code whole products built around a bad design, thus burying their teams in technical debt. And that’s not very smart - that’s stupid on a lot of different levels.