Ask HN: Non-technical employees don't get along with engineer
Perhaps unpopular opinion: it sounds like the senior SDE isn&#x27;t working out.  Being non-condescending to other team members is a core part of the job.  It shouldn&#x27;t be persisting after you tell them that it&#x27;s a problem that&#x27;s causing serious conflict within the team.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of previous discussion you could look up about whether to tolerate &quot;brilliant jerks&quot; on your team.  My take is we usually overestimate how brilliant they are and underestimate how toxic it is to have a jerk around.