[danielscrubs]

Depends a lot on the competence of your manager. If your manager only has taken “management-courses” and have zero information about the domain they are working in how are they supposed to judge efficiency? The glorified babysitter that can only talk about the latest scrum techniques.

I’ve seen IT consultants make quite a lot of money from double dipping and they always seem so stressed which further makes management think they are doing a great job.

This does seem to be more of an EU issue though where management and economics are still among the highest status competences. Working yourself up the ladder here isn’t that common (they don’t earn that much more than the developers).