Effectively managing difficult employees in a software engineering context hinges on three core principles: fostering trust by empowering autonomy, promoting growth through challenges and constructive feedback, and ensuring a comfortable work environment with streamlined processes and minimal disruptions.

Denis Bolkovskis

Anthropic

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In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there's a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and every challenge. As a person with an engineering background, I do enjoy solving hard puzzles and fixing problems. The most complex, intriguing, and ultimately rewarding aspect of my journey has always been managing people.

Managing difficult software engineers

People are messy. Working with and managing people can be incredibly difficult.
This is a really great list, with some solid advice. It will be shared ;)
Overall, I think it is important to create the right culture to encourage and reinforce the types of behavior you want to see. This is tough to do, but once you get it established, then the existing team will help course-correct the individuals naturally.