Best advice. Find another job if you're unwilling to work with this person. Staying there will only make you depressed and its unlikely that they will change fo

Best advice. Find another job if you're unwilling to work with this person. Staying there will only make you depressed and its unlikely that they will change for you. The problem is, it can go in reverse. You can have a senior dev whose really good, but has incredibly poor people skills and thinks they can solve everything and gets extremely irritated when you struggle on something. Not everyone knows the latest stuff and its often better to sit down and help them through their struggles rather than let it fester. They will respect you a lot more if you approach it in a neutral matter rather than just bad mouthing them on hacker news. From the way you respond to comments that only support your position, it sounds like you've made up your mind. However, one of the hardest things I had to learn in the professional world was active communication. Making every effort to let people know what I was doing and explaining, in detail, what I had concerns about. Sure, it takes a lot of time, but it helps immensely.