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A company that appears to have systems and guidelines is actually quite different in practice. Even when you follow the rules, you may end up becoming a thorn in the company’s side, making you wonder whether these rules are meant to be followed or are only brought up when convenient.

When team members and supervisors disagree, instead of trying to solve the problem, they wear each other down. When things succeed, it is attributed to the supervisor’s capable leadership; when problems arise, it immediately becomes a matter of the team member’s inadequate abilities. The supervisor is not only unwilling to take responsibility, but may even go out of their way to criticize team members and dump a large amount of work unrelated to the business on them.

Only in the end do you realize that what truly seems to matter here is not doing the job well, but knowing how to make grand promises, package results, and manage upward effectively. Ability and actual contributions, by contrast, do not appear to be the most important things.