This happened to me exactly. I was at a YC company and thriving and then they hired a &quot;director of engineering&quot; that was simply an arrogant asshole. I tried my best to continue performing but the last straw was when I was given a very complex task, told to make any bug fixes and escalations my top priority, and then blamed for not completing my task because I spent all my time on escalations.<p>I was gone within 2 months after that with half the other team.