this assumes that the "top of the company" is a shining tower of competence, blissfully unaware of how incompetent the people below them are. more likely, the

this assumes that the "top of the company" is a shining tower of competence, blissfully unaware of how incompetent the people below them are. more likely, the top of the company is just as incompetent but has lucked / gamed their way into promotions anyways. So this engineer throwing his managers under the bus may be good for the company in theory, but to the senior management this is a red flag. they don't want engineers who do this - they want engineers who give credit to their managers. if they promoted this engineer and fired everyone else, he'd come for them next.