SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

What type of corporate villains have you encountered with in your company? Comment your story.

Here’s my story in the field of software engineering: There’s this colleague of mine who is on a pure tech role but hardly codes. The person spends his entire time on LinkedIn sharing new age tech stuff and projects himself to the world as if he is the Messiah of architecture. The guy preaches the same gyan to members of my team. For the last one year, this guy, in the capacity of Software Architect has not pushed a single line of code into our application source code and this is on record. Yet, he is highly regarded as an expert in technology. The guy has killed the careers of some genuine software engineers with his unique approach to make it look like he is taking a lead to own stuff in tech space. The guy has had tremendous career growth, got promoted 3 times in the last 5 years.

In my view, the guy is a tech junkie whose knowledge carries no value. Yet he managed to butter the leadership team to reach to position that he is currently in.

Did you encounter any such people? If yes, comment your story.

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WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

The worst I’ve seen: A group of influential mid managers who end up just gossiping about new managers/employees on a recurring basis

Getting to a point where anybody who is not in their good books will not succeed within the company and have a bad time

I don’t think these people even realize what harm they’re bringing about

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

I too have experienced the same & have been at the receiving end of their actions. It’s not that they don’t realize the harm they are doing to genuine people but all they are concerned about is saving their ass in the company. This groupism helps people at their level to infuse their ill-agenda with the org culture making it look like a fair and honest practice.

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