There seems to be a real push towards homogeneity in teams, and I've seen it lead to bullying of people with different skills.
At one point I was working with a guy who had a prototype of a complex clustering algorithm. He did a great job prototyping it in MatLab, but the company decided to have him implement a distributed version of it in C, and they pushed him unreasonably hard. I tried to convince them to leave him alone, since I and others had the skillset to get that part done, but they kept after him, and eventually killed the project and fired both of us.
This was at Autonomy; we all had a "now I get it" moment when the fraud news came out.
At one point I was working with a guy who had a prototype of a complex clustering algorithm. He did a great job prototyping it in MatLab, but the company decided to have him implement a distributed version of it in C, and they pushed him unreasonably hard. I tried to convince them to leave him alone, since I and others had the skillset to get that part done, but they kept after him, and eventually killed the project and fired both of us.
This was at Autonomy; we all had a "now I get it" moment when the fraud news came out.