“This person sounds awful because they’re smarter than me.”
I didn't read the comment that way, but then I share the opinion that Mel seems like a difficult person to work with or to manage. Wrote obscure code and apparently failed to document any of it. Took glee when said code worked the opposite of requested. The guy who took over seems to have had to waste countless hours trying to de-obfuscate the code in order to reverse the logic of the test.
I appreciate the cleverness, but there are some red flags here. Also, I got the impression that some of the cleverness was for its own sake, rather than out of necessity.
I didn't read the comment that way, but then I share the opinion that Mel seems like a difficult person to work with or to manage. Wrote obscure code and apparently failed to document any of it. Took glee when said code worked the opposite of requested. The guy who took over seems to have had to waste countless hours trying to de-obfuscate the code in order to reverse the logic of the test.
I appreciate the cleverness, but there are some red flags here. Also, I got the impression that some of the cleverness was for its own sake, rather than out of necessity.