Honest question: how rampant is this kind of bullshit politicking in tech companies, and how does this differ with industry, size, company age, etc.? My friends who have worked at big names like F and T have described the cultures there as following: "it's as if everyone who studied too much in high school and college missed all the parties and bullshit, so they're making up for it 'on campus' here". And the stories from folks at G are not really better, though allegedly they tend to exercise politics more in the quiet-sabotage style. I feel like I'm describing races from Star Trek, company cultures are weird.