Can you describe a scenario where you had to fire an engineer and how did you handle the situation?

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At center card, as director of software engineering, I had hired a Sr. Developer
who was great performer. The problem was that he was very caustic to his team
mates. I tried to coach him with regualr 1:1 and prompting him to be more
emptathic and a team player - for e.g when he berated a PM on a project in front
of others - I had to set up a meeting and coached him to be more empathic and
not be aggresive. Inspite of these repeated tries the behavior continued. I
talked to my HR and my manager and we decided to give him the warning but
continuted to monitor, things did not improve and I unfortuanely let him go. In
retrospect I saw that our interview process was focued heavily on technical
skills and less on people skills. I changed the interview process and saw that
the team morale and productivty increased from then on , inspite of new people
on board.

Can you describe a scenario where you had to fire an engineer and how did you handle the situation?

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