Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of impact.

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floating-io 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

Reality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy).

Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted.

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ambicapter 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.

	▲	ghaff 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.

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ghaff 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens.

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apwell23 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

If it was all about impact then ppl wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to learn to play golf with their bosses. But you knew that already.

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ghaff 10 months ago | parent [-]

Is closing deals on the golf course even still a thing these days? I suppose it probably is in some circles but I haven't seen it in a couple of decades of tech industry life when it was more likely to be fun runs or skiing.

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apwell23 10 months ago | parent [-]

closing deals with your boss? what does that even mean.

	▲	ghaff 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		Getting a promotion? But my broader point was that golf course socializing seems like mostly a different world today, at least in my tech circles, relative to other venues.