Ask HN: How can one deal with bad management?

I'm working at a big and renowned software company, but I'm not living in the USA, so my experience could be different from people working there. After all, big companies only come in third-world countries for cost-savings. I also read pg's essays, which I liked, so I may be influenced by his thinking. I am a regular software developer, and I'm really passionate about my work, that's why it hurts me to no end when I see decisions being made that do not benefit the project. Some gripes include, but not limited to: * changing a good design with one that's not visually appealing, and is really confusing, because we had to make it look like it's part of the company's website * to change the design, and to accomodate future changes, we are including external server-side files in our HTML, files that gathered a lot of cruft over the years, with bad coding practices (inline CSS/Javascript). We have to load them from external sources, such that when they change, it changes for us too. * With o