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Beyond budget constraints, those brilliant engineers may not be good team players. Their brilliance may be in the way of finding the necessary compromises and
by sorokod 1y ago
Beyond budget constraints, those brilliant engineers may not be good team players.
Their brilliance may be in the way of finding the necessary compromises and doing the required but not intellectually challenging work.
- tikhonj 1y agoI dunno, almost all the brilliant engineers I've known have also been great team players and mentors. Not all, but I'd say it's pretty correlated. The reason brilliant assholes stand out is one of those statistical paradoxes whose name I've forgotten: somebody who's an asshole has to be brilliant to succeed, while team players can get pretty far with a wide range of skill levels.
- spimmy 1y agoha! ok, i never thought of it quite like that.
- MontyCarloHall 1y agoYou are thinking of Berkson's Paradox! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
- ryandrake 1y agoI’ve seen plenty of assholes build long successful careers in tech without the brilliance.