This article has lots of great advice, and I learned a lot (as someone who has worked in the industry for 20+ years). And, I will say, these tactics are somewh

This article has lots of great advice, and I learned a lot (as someone who has worked in the industry for 20+ years). And, I will say, these tactics are somewhat inversely effective when correlated against the disfunction of the organization. His point about getting fired even though he (made his boss fear + made his boss happy) tells me that in that organization there was a lot of disfunction. All organizations are bureaucratic and disfunctional to some extent, but in the really bad ones, I saw a lot more Machiavellian tactics that were successful. In the worst organizations, it feels different tactics are needed: look for nepotistic relationships with your "tribe," write terrible code that no one understands, or do something like that.