[karmakaze]

That's actually insightful. Wish I'd known this early in my career. Often, I'll be doing a great job with no complains from peers or project deliveries but seemingly 'tolerated' and not liked by any management types as they had no influence, I just did what needed doing of my own accord. Or maybe I didn't need to know, ignorance was bliss.

[ndiscussion]

Check out this post: https://daedtech.com/defining-the-corporate-hierarchy/

I really recommend his book Developer Hegemony, although it was very depressing and I haven't quite recovered a year later :D

[karmakaze]

Enough of that is funny 'cause it's true or sad but true. I work at a big co but not a full-on enterprise corp. I value my own time and work, more-or-less in alignment with broader initiatives. Learning new things and technical challenges makes the journey interesting, and it's fun/easy to get work done with most people. Sometimes I have varying degrees of communications (tech vs non-tech or grok/non-grok conceptual) issues but for the most part leadership has enough technical sense to make decent choices. So far, so good.