Most of us in software engineering have, at some point, encountered someone who does not see a difference between technical criticisms of a system and personal attacks on its designers and authors. This is an understandable error in a junior engineer, an irritating bad habit in a mid-tier engineer, and a problem in a senior person. In all cases, the answer often winds up being finding a way around them, much as this describes.
I've been places where such people have found their way to technical leadership. Finding ways to improve things can rapidly become exceptionally difficult.
At this point my only way forward is to have a personal blocklist of people whose technical leadership decisions I refuse to ever be subject to again. It's a shame, because some of them are also brilliant engineers.
I've been places where such people have found their way to technical leadership. Finding ways to improve things can rapidly become exceptionally difficult.
At this point my only way forward is to have a personal blocklist of people whose technical leadership decisions I refuse to ever be subject to again. It's a shame, because some of them are also brilliant engineers.