As one of the commenters on SO said, good code is a question of your environment. The fact that he can produce very advanced code doesn't mean that it's good co

As one of the commenters on SO said, good code is a question of your environment. The fact that he can produce very advanced code doesn't mean that it's good code where he works. It's crucial to write code that others will be able to understand and maintain. If he's hired into a company where most employees have little knowledge of the domain, he needs to be extra careful to structure the code as simply as possible. If you start somewhere and disagree with the programming languages or techniques they use, the answer is not to use what you think it's best. The answer is to either go with the company policy, or to try and change it. But not just producing what you think is great code, even though no one else can understand it.