How to grow at the workplace without indulging in politics?

I find it easy to give interviews, take above 50% hike and promotion. But its near to impossible for me to gain that in any of my current or previous org. I don't know how to grow where you are at ths moment. Can someone enlighten me😑

A few of my peers in my team talk tech jargons throughout the day in the workplace and do no work at all. They are the ones that are eventually promoted and I feel left out despite doing so much smart work and hard work both. Teach me some ways to defeat these imposters and grow in my career.

How to deal with situations where you have given your best and contributed a lot to the project/Organisation (which is tangible) but the efforts don't get reflected in your performance appraisals and promotions due to office politics? You don't get promoted because the boss's favourite needs to be promoted despite sub-par performance. Shifting the job isn't an option for a few years considering responsibilities, lack of good paying jobs in finance and the Organisation is really good.

Need guidance - I have joined a company in Nov-22. I am performing really well and hence, my managers (both onshore and offshore) are very happy with my performance. Recently, my manager (and us 3 reporting to her) have been put under a Sr. Manager. The dynamics have been difficult between my Manager and the Sr. Manager. Now, my rapport is good with both of them (as this is being supported by my positive feedback from multiple projects and BU owners). As I am connected with my manager (who keeps it with herself) a bit more as compared to the Sr Manager (who is very outspoken and clearly shares the issues he has with her approach). I know and understand very well that I might just be a spawn for both of them in case of unforeseen issues. Could you all please guide me how to manage the connection with both? I have been thinking about focusing on my job and keeping "close distance" with both. Would this help? Or based on your experiences, is there any other approach that I should explore? Please provide your guidance.

Lately it's been really hard trying to cope up with derogatory comments and people trying to pull you down. I build/refactored some of our codebase and things go south in terms of performance at few places. I realised the mistake and fixed the performance bottlenecks that happened because of me in least time possible. But people still look down on me on and manager keeps passing hurtful comments about the incident every now and then. Moreover there's worse happening fellow people start blaming you for the performance of code you haven't even touched. You are just utilizing some function in your codebase written by some other person. I don't know how to handle all this and what should I do to avoid this? Mistakes happen, bugs go on prod, things can break but as far as once everything stabilise, we should move on.

Hey, I am a SWE with 2 yrs exp. recently I found out that juniors in my team are being paid atleast 10% more than me. This thing has been bugging me so much that I setup a meeting with my manager but here’s the thing- I have no idea how to talk about this to my manager. I obviously think it’s unfair given how much more work I am doing. Can experienced people here please guide me on how to approach this meeting? Thanks!

I'm feeling really stuck and frustrated at work lately. Despite putting in my best efforts and consistently performing well, it seems like my manager is feeling threatened by my progress. He’s been rejecting my ideas and work without even reviewing them, and calling me out in meetings for not completing non-priority tasks. The environment has become really toxic and it's taking a toll on me. Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you handle it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I will go first, it doesn't matter if you really work hard on a project, in the end only result matter, no matter how much efforts you made for it