I experienced two nearly-brilliant thorough-going jerks at once in one role, who induced me and most of my peers to leave also. There have been a couple of oth

I experienced two nearly-brilliant thorough-going jerks at once in one role, who induced me and most of my peers to leave also. There have been a couple of others in another role, in banking, and they know exactly what I think of them! B^> These people do exist, and can be successful, and the description given in TFA pretty closely matches many aspects of psychopathy, such as the charming-when-necessary and no empathy. Psychopaths are 5x more common in the C-suite than the general population. I don't know about the engineering ratio.