> and one's competence doesn't matter at all This is, thankfully, not true. The truth is that you need to have some baseline level of competency to survive in

> and one's competence doesn't matter at all This is, thankfully, not true. The truth is that you need to have some baseline level of competency to survive in corporate world. Sometimes it's quite low (for scrum masters, business analysts etc.), but still, these people know a lot more about software than say random person from the street outside the building. The sad part is that, beyond this baseline level of competency, further competency does not help nearly as much as the being good at company politics.