We are a pretty small company of around 10 core people are we just brought on a new contractor. He’s is most certainly more talented than the rest of our team but has a terrible attitude and thinks that he is really God’s gift to engineering. I’m torn as his manager because we could really use his talents and yet my instinct tells me that reliability and being able to work on a team is more important than talent or skill.

I’ve never posted before only because we’re so much smaller than most of the businesses you all work at, but I really don’t know what to do here. The owner says to “do what’s best” but that falls to me.

Give another chance but set expectations that if it doesn’t change that will be it?