[Terr_]

> Why does it matter if you don't get promoted?

I think the point of the blog-post is that in the long-term it makes it harder to be employed at all.

Kind of like the quip that you can ignore politics, but it won't ignore you.

[ttz]

Not arguing against you in any way, but IMO, if you're at a place where politics will dictate your _actual continued employment_, it's probably not somewhere I'd particularly enjoy working.

[Terr_]

Staying employed is one half of it, but the other half is periodically landing a new job. I think most software developers would agree that companies often have frustrating mismatches between what a candidate needs to get hired versus what an employee needs to be productive.

All this job-title/promotion/levels stuff is another kind of mismatch. So a future company you would enjoy working for could still have a hiring process which looks for the stuff you dislike.