Beyond budget constraints, those brilliant engineers may not be good team players.
Their brilliance may be in the way of finding the necessary compromises and doing the required but not intellectually challenging work.
Their brilliance may be in the way of finding the necessary compromises and doing the required but not intellectually challenging work.
The reason brilliant assholes stand out is one of those statistical paradoxes whose name I've forgotten: somebody who's an asshole has to be brilliant to succeed, while team players can get pretty far with a wide range of skill levels.