Some of the seeming superstars are the ones who can talk your ear off about programming and their brilliant insights and experience. But once you get them into the workplace they bring productivity of everyone around them to a crawl. They are temperamental, ridiculous, stubborn, irrational, fond of verbose complication over simple and straightforward and *highly* political. These people sound great, know all the right words and buzzwords to use but they get nothing done. Zero. They are all talk. Often they have Ph.D.s or will frequently bring up how they used to work at ILM or Pixar or some great place where they are no longer employed. Primadonnas *SUCK*.
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Some of the seeming superstars are the ones who can talk your ear off about programming and their brilliant insights and experience. But once you get them into the workplace they bring productivity of everyone around them to a crawl. They are temperamental, ridiculous, stubborn, irrational, fond of verbose complication over simple and straightforward and *highly* political. These people sound great, know all the right words and buzzwords to use but they get nothing done. Zero. They are all talk. Often they have Ph.D.s or will frequently bring up how they used to work at ILM or Pixar or some great place where they are no longer employed. Primadonnas *SUCK*.