This personality defect is painfully common. They view themselves as "the bar." It's always trumped up nonsense blown out of proportion. In one debrief, they m

This personality defect is painfully common. They view themselves as "the bar." It's always trumped up nonsense blown out of proportion. In one debrief, they made a stink because they botched an implementation of a red-black tree. it was the most pretty, trivial nonsense. The only time people are implementing red-black trees by hand are... when they're studying for our bullshit software interviews. We also had a guy with a Ph.D in.. something. He wanted everyone to know he was very smart. Especially the interviewees. The problem he asked was so bizarre and complex that it took those of us already at the company several hours to figure it out upon giving it a try. it's just, like, dude, what is the point of what you're trying to do here? How small is your ego that you need to bully strangers on irrelevant nonsense?