Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.
Apparently he was smart enough to get away from the Fortune 500 company he worked at, reporting to yourself, and "got a pay raise too."
> Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch.
See above.
> If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.
Maybe you don't know the talent within your own organization. Which is entirely understandable given your proclamation:
Our engineers are fucking morons.
IOW, either the guy left to get out from under an EM who says he is a "fucking moron" or he actually is a "fucking moron" and you failed as a manager to elevate his skills/performance to a satisfactory level.
Managers aren't teachers. They can spend some time mentoring and teaching but there's a limit to that. I've worked with someone who could not write good code and no manager could change that.
Most people I've worked with aren't like that of course (there's really only one that stands out), so maybe you've just been lucky enough to avoid them.
I do find it unlikely that all of his engineers are morons, but on the other hand I haven't worked for a typical fortune 500 company - maybe that's where all the mediocre programmers end up.