At my previous job I didn't experience the internal conflict thing as much, we were lucky in that regard. But I did experience the "doing nothing for a while" thing. Within a couple of weeks my boss and his boss both left the company and it took forever to find replacements. Our team finished up our work that original boss had assigned and then...we were told to just keep doing what we were doing...which for the most part was playing call of duty on our company machines all day...

At my current job there is a ton of internal competition and near constant reorganization. This very week my team was rolled into a new organization, and we're working as hard as we can to out position another team so that we don't get rolled under them (or replaced by them). We've positioned architects strategically and work well outside the chain of command to socialize our roadmaps and designs. We every so slightly bend policy where we can. Anything to gain an edge on "the competition" (who are vastly more well funded but who service a considerably smaller section of the enterprise). It's extremely stressful and not productive and absolutely not why I joined this company two years ago. So I'm interviewing at our actual competition. I've spoken with their HR and the person I'll report to already (if I get an offer). Next week I have three more panels and then hopefully I'll know something soon. If it works out I'm going to knowledge dump to my team, tell them to update their linkedin and GitHub, and then I'm going to burn off my PTO and drop my two weeks.