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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by mcguire on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:14PM (#15462424)
"They can also cause a lot of friction because their higher level of knowledge and experience can make them refuse to follow established processes and procedures, even when there are very good contextual and historical reasons for why those processes and procedures exist at that particular organization."

Personally, I have seen that more with less qualified, younger, new cow-orkers. Particularly those who have had only one previous job. "At my last job, we did X. Therefore X is the one true way to do it."

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by geobmx540 on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:28AM (#15463283)
"At my last job, we did X. Therefore X is the one true way to do it."

I mostly see this in younger people, but the number of older people I have seen like this is ridiculous. Boggles my mind (being on the younger side)

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by aweiland on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:40AM (#15465053)
I believe this is called the Expert Beginner.

https://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-o...

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