Why do you want to "engineer your way to the fucking top" of a broken organization with a bunch of teams full of bad engineers managed by stuffed shirts who don't give a shit?
You may think I sound naive; I think you sound burned out. In my experience, it's pretty common for someone to say, "hey boss, Joe is really phoning it in these past few months, it's dragging the team down and you need to do something about it" and for the manager to either help Joe improve or fire Joe. And given how cynical your attitude is, I think you'd be very surprised at how often Joe actually does improve. Everyone will have the worst year of their career at some point, and it usually isn't the last one.
> Why do you want to "engineer your way to the fucking top" of a broken organization with a bunch of teams full of bad engineers managed by stuffed shirts who don't give a shit?
Because it’s easier than socially engineering your way up a competent organization and the paychecks are similar.
I’ll plus one this. I have also talked to managers about coworkers (and have them ask me about teammates). Maybe it’s luck if the draw but it’s possible to have healthy managers and still have dysfunction that needs dealt with. There never won’t be.
You may think I sound naive; I think you sound burned out. In my experience, it's pretty common for someone to say, "hey boss, Joe is really phoning it in these past few months, it's dragging the team down and you need to do something about it" and for the manager to either help Joe improve or fire Joe. And given how cynical your attitude is, I think you'd be very surprised at how often Joe actually does improve. Everyone will have the worst year of their career at some point, and it usually isn't the last one.