Lot of talk about how one's experience at a given company depends on their specific manager, also talk about CTO coming in and changing stuff. I think it needs

Lot of talk about how one's experience at a given company depends on their specific manager, also talk about CTO coming in and changing stuff. I think it needs more emphasis how top-down hierarchy is very vulnerable to stupid management decisions. I worked at a company 5 years ago that I wa shocked to find myself actually get to a level of comfort with on my team, because I'm not a person who fits well with careerist bureaucrats and big conpanies in general. Me and this other frontend guy figured out part of this big codebase we inherited, and developed good collaboration with ea h other and the broader team which had developed naturally. Move forward 3 months after that, and my manager's manager (who was never there, but really wanted his outgoing boss' job) decided he'd make an impact by shuffling all the teams into arbitrary groups based presumably on some listicle he read in LinkedIn. I didn't last long and burnt out for years trying to make the best of it.