[mindover]

I disagree. This is just a different relationship with work - not better and not worse. Being focused on career advancements doesn’t make them (sorry for generalizing again) worse engineers or worse colleagues. Eg I don’t care about my IC level and enjoy coding, someone else cares more about their IC level and enjoys coding. Why should I care?

[0xcafefood]

Can you explain how focusing on "power consolidation" and not as much on the actual work makes someone a good colleague?