>>Hi all,
>>There is a team made of 10 developers; 3 seniors and the rest either mid or juniors. One of the seniors thinks that he is "more" senior than the other (he just called himself that...
>>So, here is my question.
>>I was wondering how would you deal with someone that calls himself the best of the best developers and yet he has not done any coding in 3 years lol, actively refuses to code pretending that his work must be done as a team effort( aka other doing his work, his 2 years long project was finished by other 2 developers in 3 months....) and micromanages the heck out of everyone.
>>The word on the street ( read around watercooler) is that he cannot do any development ( it is pretty much a fact) and his politics are counterproductive for the group. On top of that he literally controls the physical access to code libraries ( cds,dvds, devices) , makes his problem to be the group problems, and bubbles up every little thing he encounters.
>>His estimates of other people tasks are just ridiculously short while for his own (which rarely happens) there is a huge amount of padding ( a good example is for some basic queries about 1 week lol).
>>We have tried several tactics to change him but none of them worked. Have to admit, the guy is an extremely good talker; he could probably sell anything to anyone ( like the upper management, who is clueless when it comes to development and they swallow whatever the guy says).
>>Ive never seen anything like this in my entire life and career.
>>ANd yes, I moved on, starting a new job in 2 weeks:)
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>Didn't I see this on Seinfeld?

lol

And George must have been the best senior ;-)