It is absolutely damaging. But the dude knows way more about the tech we use than anybody else on the team. He is autistic as fuck, and his hyperfixation is the Microsoft tech stack.
He spends hours at home watching tutorials because he legit thinks it’s fun.
He routinely shows up to work and goes “hey, did you see the new [version of Microsoft package/tool] they finally fixed [thing]!”
And every time I’m just like “no. I did not see that”.
He has by far the most experience and knowledge, but he just misuses it like crazy.
Shame he didn’t spend time reading up on SOLID principles, clean code, refactoring and TDD. Sounds like Jr parading as a senior. Product nerd != good developer.
Most seniors got burned so much, they refuse to build complex unsupportable stuff. KISS is king with top devs.
The fact this dude has the most experience says everything about your orgs hiring processes. Cheaping out on senior salaries.
That is not a senior dev. That’s junior level work cosplaying as clever senior work.
Yes and no.
It is absolutely damaging. But the dude knows way more about the tech we use than anybody else on the team. He is autistic as fuck, and his hyperfixation is the Microsoft tech stack.
He spends hours at home watching tutorials because he legit thinks it’s fun.
He routinely shows up to work and goes “hey, did you see the new [version of Microsoft package/tool] they finally fixed [thing]!”
And every time I’m just like “no. I did not see that”.
He has by far the most experience and knowledge, but he just misuses it like crazy.
Shame he didn’t spend time reading up on SOLID principles, clean code, refactoring and TDD. Sounds like Jr parading as a senior. Product nerd != good developer.
Most seniors got burned so much, they refuse to build complex unsupportable stuff. KISS is king with top devs.
The fact this dude has the most experience says everything about your orgs hiring processes. Cheaping out on senior salaries.
Cheap doesn’t even begin to describe it.