Don't be hard to work with, but don't spend any extra effort on being effective either. I take the sycophant model of being easy to work with, but I also make

Don't be hard to work with, but don't spend any extra effort on being effective either. I take the sycophant model of being easy to work with, but I also make sure I don't learn anything outside my silo so that I don't get a lot of work and can interview prep.