Idiom:

Pick someone's brain ( ask advice from other persons )

Hit the book:

Commend

Bureaucracy

Arrogant

Hierarchy

Retention

Notorious

Cult

Shred

False move

Trigger

The politics of the office can get to some people.

A software engineer commended Apple's brilliant colleagues on Glassdoor, but commented on the bureaucracy: 'Alas, those smart colleagues are sometimes arrogant. With no formal hierarchy in many teams, everyone is formally equal, but as it always happens in situations like this, 'some are more equal than others''.