If a developer is too good to do FizzBuzz for me, then probably he's too good to work for me, and should do us both a favor and go away. I imagine that each ti

If a developer is too good to do FizzBuzz for me, then probably he's too good to work for me, and should do us both a favor and go away. I imagine that each time he needs to do something, he'll be asking himself whether it's beneath him or not. As a leader, a senior developer needs to be capable and willing to do anything that gets done underneath his area of responsibility if that's the key thing that needs to be done right now and everybody else is busy doing the thing that they need to be doing. If they're not willing to do whatever it takes, then they're not the kind of senior leader I need. The larger the organization, though, the more room there is for people who are too good to do various kinds of work. But smaller teams, where the highest productivity is, need flexible people.