Our engineering team has this brilliant senior developer who everyone respects technically but who shuts down any process discussion and makes people afraid to ask questions in code reviews. I'm the tech lead and I've been trying to manage around his personality for eight months instead of addressing it because I'm scared of losing him and scared of the confrontation.
More people experience this than they realize.
One brilliant but difficult developer is scaring your team, and you've been avoiding dealing with him.
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