[neilv]

> Your job is to execute the mission of your company’s leadership.

In a large company, aren't workers incentived to please their immediate manager and whatever higher metrics/appearances they're exposed to.

Neither of these guiding incentives necessarily has much to do with the mission of company leadership.

Isn't the job whatever the incentives say it is?

Maybe the difference between incentives -- and what the author is saying is the job is -- are related to the corporate inefficiency that the author talked about? (For example, an org chart path of imperfectly aligned, imperfectly competent managers means whatever your manager values is "inefficiently" traceable to the mission of company leadership?)

[scarface_74]

> In a large company, aren't workers incentived to please their immediate manager and whatever higher metrics/appearances they're exposed to.

Your manager alone can’t promote you in BigTech. Your promotion has to be approved by a committee based on a promo doc.

You can both make your manager happy by doing “glue work” that makes them look good and not have anything worthwhile to put on your promo doc that the committee will find suitable for a promotion.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-prom...