There are different degrees of power and influence. I've found that people who are disagreeable to management indeed might have trouble getting promoted and cl

There are different degrees of power and influence. I've found that people who are disagreeable to management indeed might have trouble getting promoted and climb the corporate ladder, but at the same time they might be tremendously influential among their peers. This is also a common effect that can be observed in anti-establishment/opposition structures, both in work-related (e.g leaders of trade unions) and political manners (e.g opposition parties). The leaders of said organizations can often be hugely influential within, but at the same considered highly disagreeable/assholes by the people on the other side. > Let's take it a step further: agreeable people don't care about good engineering. They can't, by definition. This! However, that generally leads to disagreeable engineers being very popular with their peers, and not so popular with management, unless the company is inherently engineer/dev focused.