I knew a guy in school who was ridiculously smart. Like, holy shit he could code things that would take me and other people 20+ hours in less than half that time, but he was a gigantic asshole. He had one of the most negative attitudes I've ever seen on anyone, basically spiteful towards everyone.
Anyways, I wasn't really friends with him, but I was in several of his classes and had seen him around, so when we had to organize a group for a class me and some friends of mine decided he'd be a great addition since he was so strong with computer science.
What a horrible decision. The kid was so dramatic that he eventually stopped coming to meetings, and stopped responding to emails that we'd send declaring when the group was meeting. He was impossible to communicate with. Instead of trying to help the group in the direction we needed to go for our project to actually work, he'd just continually berate people in group meetings for ideas he deemed "stupid". He built up this idea in his head near the end of the semester that everyone in the group hated him (which at that point, was probably true) which just reinforced his isolation from us. I found out from a guy I worked in a group with the next semester who was friends with him that he'd basically told people he knew that it was all our fault since we hated him and stopped telling him when we were meeting.
He ended up doing literally nothing for the project, contributed nothing during presentations, and just really brought the group down with his attitude. I know that he's interviewed with several bigger companies like Microsoft, Google, etc, but he has yet to get any offers. I'm sure the reason for this is that in interviews he just comes off like a gigantic twat.
University work may not equate to workplace work, but the principles of interaction, communication, and teamwork are relatively the same. If you can't fucking function in school you wont be able to in a workplace, no matter how smart you are.
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