I'd feel like I had no business working with such a person and it would be management's fault for hiring me. Excellent engineers should only be managed by exce

I'd feel like I had no business working with such a person and it would be management's fault for hiring me. Excellent engineers should only be managed by excellent managers. Excellent managers should only hire 5X+ developers, there's no reason to hire anyone worse than that. If you absolutely must, keep the grunt team heavily partitioned away from the real team and DON'T let them dictate strategy or culture. I think the root of this problem is that most of the people who have access to capital really aren't 10X at anything so you have an extreme mismatch of skill vs. authority in most companies.