How do you deal with Office Politics as an Engineer?

Don't focus. The tech ladder is better elsewhere and switching every 2 years is an optimal strategy.

From Reddit: Once came into work one day and the code I had written and was working the day before was inexplicably no longer working. Turns out that the CEO of the company didn't like the name I had given to a new field in a database table and changed the name. Without telling anyone.

Heads down and work on your Jira ticket, peasant.

Either you leave a company as a Good engineer or survive enough in a company to become a Politician.

Kuch nahi bro. Just focus on your work and it will be all done.

As everyone else I obviously find office politics annoying. There are insecure people who do shit to put you under the bus or take away your credit because they're threatened that you might overshine them. This could be your manager or just a jealous colleague. What I realised this year is that politics is unavoidable. It's going to be there everywhere. No matter what you do. We always think politics to be dirty but actually it depends on your intentions. I was just thinking how Mahabharat is totally about politics. Shakuni was political and strategic but so was Krishna. What really differentiates them is their intention behind the politics they were doing. While I haven't completely been able to master office politics but I'm slowly learning how to be more diplomatic and strategic. Reading the Gita could help maybe, Arjun!

By directly talking to the people who’re included into it. Note :- try not to hit them : |

Anand Rathi. Which location?

You don't