Comment by watters

The title is a fairly harmless form of click-bait.

What the author describes is the effect on a solid senior engineer working in a terrible organizational system for a not very skilled or savvy manager.

Such managers (and directors and VPs) are common, even in the top tech companies. They may occur less frequently in those companies, but skilled, savvy managers are much rarer than excellent engineers, so the dysfunction described continues unabated in all companies.