1 office politics tip for engineers: engineers are helpful people, people who believe in putting in hard work now because future benefits.
office politicians believe in focusing on politics (relationships) and putting their name on as much progress as possible and getting facetime with higher ups.
watch for it in meetings: do not accept work assigned to you by a peer, push back on the boss going along with a peer assigning you work, and do not accept a peer volunteering to do the presentation while you get started on grunt work. that person is planning to "coordinate" your work and put s/he's name on it and give the presentation to higher ups.
you do the presentation, you talk to higher ups. somebody wants to help? they need to take their share of the grunt work, earn their way in like you did.
office politicians believe in focusing on politics (relationships) and putting their name on as much progress as possible and getting facetime with higher ups.
watch for it in meetings: do not accept work assigned to you by a peer, push back on the boss going along with a peer assigning you work, and do not accept a peer volunteering to do the presentation while you get started on grunt work. that person is planning to "coordinate" your work and put s/he's name on it and give the presentation to higher ups.
you do the presentation, you talk to higher ups. somebody wants to help? they need to take their share of the grunt work, earn their way in like you did.