I mostly agree with you, but: > And it is abundantly clear how to get a promotion: make a good impression on your team. Cooperate, teach, help out, be nice, do

I mostly agree with you, but: > And it is abundantly clear how to get a promotion: make a good impression on your team. Cooperate, teach, help out, be nice, do good work. … it strikes me that the problem is that the way to get a promotion would be to seem to cooperate, teach, help out, be nice & do good work, not necessarily actually do those things — one might end up with promotees who simply know how to game the system. It might still be preferable to the current state of affairs, which as you note hardly works.