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Re:Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review... by pllbnk on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:51AM (#20478620)
From personal experience 'brilliant jerks' from articles like this and popular culture are people who are criticising everything and everyone as if they know better and are often seen as brilliant by less savvy colleagues (e.g., their managers) but have nothing to show for it and are often seen as impostors by their more savvy peers.

I personally know several truly brilliant people at what they do and none of them are jerks. I have yet to see this 'brilliant jerk' everyone seems to be taking about.

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Re:Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review... by ashwinaj on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:35AM (#20479486)
I'm not sure where you are located but come to the SF Bay area. You'll find tons of them in every company.
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Re:Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review... by throwaway3627 on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:53PM (#20482764)
At workplaces without civility, jerks are often rewarded if they deliver results, and management tolerates them because they make them look good. OTOH, not separating out punishment of the brilliance from the jerk is an equally-damaging lack of nuance.
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Re:Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review... by ashwinaj on Friday July 19, 2019 @06:24PM (#20482933)
Throwaway account, cool.

You're talking as if most, if not all, companies are engaging in R&D at the level of the Apollo 11 space mission. You don't need brilliant people in most cases, merely having honest, diligent, persistent normal human beings can get the job done.

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Re:Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review... by throwaway3627 on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:50PM (#20482732)
Dunning-Kruger
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