Thing is, mortals like I know very little about workspace psychology compared to large scale operations such as Google. I have an inkling of an idea because I was repeatedly subjected to the same problematic environment too many times in my 10 year career as a simple software developer with no lead titles.
Off the top of my head:
There is always someone incompetent getting paid more than you. I think this means they are willing to spend money on someone else so you work harder to reach his/her status like a horse going after a carrot it will never reach.
There is always some kind of boss who will not indulge in technical details in order to understand how long a project would really take before pitching the idea to a customer. This is their way of "getting things done" or "making hard things a reality".
Off the top of my head:
There is always someone incompetent getting paid more than you. I think this means they are willing to spend money on someone else so you work harder to reach his/her status like a horse going after a carrot it will never reach.
There is always some kind of boss who will not indulge in technical details in order to understand how long a project would really take before pitching the idea to a customer. This is their way of "getting things done" or "making hard things a reality".