7 types of difficult coworkers and how to deal with them

Hey everyone, Jordan here 👋. Before jumping in, I want to thank you for the newsletter growth. In the past month, we’ve doubled in subscribers (from 12k to 24k). It makes me incredibly happy to know you are finding so much value from the newsletter. I interviewed Raviraj Achar , a Staff Engineer at Meta to learn how he handles working with difficult coworkers. What makes Raviraj special? Raviraj has 10+ years of experience across Meta and Microsoft and he’s been a tech lead at Meta for 5 years. He is: A go-to person at Meta to solve cross-organization challenges. A coach for many Senior and Staff engineers on people skills, guiding them to resolve difficult situations. A Staff Engineer with a track record of delivering long, high-impact projects. Quick terminology: In big tech, a Staff Engineer translates to L6, which is 1 level above Senior. If you’d like to jump straight to the TL;DR and takeaways at any point, see the bottom. I’m officially going to be teaching a course on Maven! T

Hey everyone, Jordan here 👋. Before jumping in, I want to thank you for the newsletter growth. In the past month, we’ve doubled in subscribers (from 12k to 24k). It makes me incredibly happy to know you are finding so much value from the newsletter. I interviewed Raviraj Achar , a Staff Engineer at Meta to learn how he handles working with difficult coworkers. What makes Raviraj special? Raviraj has 10+ years of experience across Meta and Microsoft and he’s been a tech lead at Meta for 5 years. He is: A go-to person at Meta to solve cross-organization challenges. A coach for many Senior and S