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		imetatroll on March 14, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams I'm a bit jealous. I currently work with an exceptional engineer but he is very condescending and acts somewhat pissed off by "simple" questions or people asking for help. The product is fantastic thanks to his work and I am learning, I think, what it really means to attempt to write excellent code - he really nit picks the hell out of my PRs - but to be honest I wish I didn't have to work with him. He has really demotivated me.

lysace on March 15, 2025 [–]

Well that sucks.

I've met that an instance of that kind of 10x:er (well, 5x:er, in this case). He defaulted to dismissing everyone until they had proven themselves.

I don't think there is much you can do to "improve him".

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