> Personally that sounds like barf It is and it's not. I got mediocre plus results without too much politics, and I guess that for the long run I could advanc

> Personally that sounds like barf It is and it's not. I got mediocre plus results without too much politics, and I guess that for the long run I could advance without back stabbing anyone (the site was closed before I had a chance to test my assumption) but I agree that most of the moving up had to include politics, stress, insecurities, backstabbing and stress. On the other hand you can relatively easy get to positions where you influence tens or more engineers while in smaller places those positions are rare and super senior