Thanks for reposting this. Sounds so eerily similar to my last principal that I wonder if it's the same guy, although I'm sure this is a common phenomenon.
Re:How to be a -10x Engineer
by ARandomerDude on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:20AM
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Great read, thanks for (re)sharing.
Amazing how much of this resonates with behaviors I've seen over the past few years.
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made. - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 125 comments; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211953 30 comments)
> “You will never be able to understand any of what I’ve created. I am Albert F**ing Einstein and you are all monkeys scrabbling in the dirt.”
> And so our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transformation into Mr. Hyde.
> He declared this in front of the product design team, developers, management, and pre-launch customers. One of our project sponsors had the temerity to ask when the problem crippling our product would be fixed.
And then follow up:
A team reborn after the fiery departure of its misanthropic guru - https://blog.solha.co/life-after-rick-our-team-reborn-after-...