We've All Had Managers and Colleagues Like These, But This is How it Works at IBM
Like people who promote back doors trying to oust real security lecturers
Over a decade ago I learned the true meaning of "appraisals" and buzzwords like "competency" (or "skills") "matrix", typically promoted not by technical people but the McKinsey types who will destroy your company while pretending to have done their best. They have no qualifications (formal or otherwise) in tech and their management style suggests they don't know how to manage people, either.
There is this interesting new thread that has not been censored (yet) about what it's like inside IBM when dealing with McKinsey and McKinsey-like moles:
There's also this newer thread:
Remember that at IBM you get rewarded for failing. Competent people scare the failing ones; so they get ousted, they're perceived to be "rivals". █