I thought so until I met one. He knew what our team lead wanted before he wanted it and would already have it done, along with all of his assigned work. He would take initiative and build tools that the whole team could use and be more effective with. He had a huge impact on me.
That just sounds like a developer who had worked on a similar project before, which would obviously look like some kind of genius vs those starting from scratch.
Negative. He came from working in startups to working in defense. The work could not have been any more different. He was initially unfamiliar with most of the tools and processes that we used.
