I completely agree. I can tolerate someone who's not that great on social skills, but does good work. But unfortunately, we also have "an asshole who is technically worthless", where I work. He's egotistical, craves praise, horribly abrasive, plain unfriendly, anti-social, oh yeah and writes shitty code. Pretty much every single developer things he sucks, including QA. Unfortunately he's great at sucking up to the right kinds of people and so they have the impression that he's a "rockstar developer" because "he gets things done". He actually used to be a team lead until there was a threat of a mass exodus from his team because of his shitty management skills. He had no sense of leadership and belittled everyone on his team. Eventually he was moved over to another team where he could do little damage. We used to have another person like him almost a year ago and I was unlucky to have him on my team. He was a "self-taught" programmer who really only had done PHP and not much of anything else. He had no idea of any best-practices, would argue constantly against well-established software-engineering and software-design principles, write shitty code really fast and without tests, and was just a douche in general. Luckily he quit (with 4 hours notice) when he realized that he was going to get fired.