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Ask HN: How do you deal with the brilliant jerks at your workplace?
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Over the past decade of my career, I have come across a few arrogant people who were brilliant, and sometimes indispensable to the project. They would consider themselves absolutely untouchable because of their superior intellect. But with time I realised that they were doing more harm than good. Have you ever successfully converted a brilliant jerk into a relatively milder one? How did you deal with those people? Especially when you were a technical lead or a manager ..

Over the past decade of my career, I have come across a few arrogant people who were brilliant, and sometimes indispensable to the project. They would consider themselves absolutely untouchable because of their superior intellect. But with time I realised that they were doing more harm than good. Have you ever successfully converted a brilliant jerk into a relatively milder one? How did you deal with those people? Especially when you were a technical lead or a manager ..