This piece dives into how startups and tech giants are once again chasing “challenging-but-brilliant” engineers - people who deliver results but poison culture.

It’s a take on the “wartime vs peacetime” hiring mindset: when markets are unstable, leaders want rule-breakers who “create something out of nothing.” But the article points out how this logic ignores bias (women and underrepresented groups rarely get forgiven for being “spicy”) and how these hires often backfire.

Curious how others see this. Have you worked somewhere that tolerated a “brilliant jerk”? Did it pay off or implode?