Politics is everywhere. Misaligned incentives are everywhere.
The best you can do is find a place where those with the power to promote also have skin in the game. Usually that means working directly for an owner, or being an owner yourself.
Politics dominates when those who do the promotion do not suffer the consequences of losing good people or promoting bad people.
All organizations become shit after they grow to 10,000+ people. It’s not possible for politics to be kept out at that scale. Google may be worse than many other places because its steady profits allow it to keep many useless individuals on the rolls, who would be fired elsewhere.
The best you can do is find a place where those with the power to promote also have skin in the game. Usually that means working directly for an owner, or being an owner yourself.
Politics dominates when those who do the promotion do not suffer the consequences of losing good people or promoting bad people.
All organizations become shit after they grow to 10,000+ people. It’s not possible for politics to be kept out at that scale. Google may be worse than many other places because its steady profits allow it to keep many useless individuals on the rolls, who would be fired elsewhere.