I've witnessed this across a few people and across a few companies—both in terms of wasting time for the company, or pushing the company to be better.
There's definitely folks that take all they can get, scream about unnecessary things, and are just general drama, but overall are basically an underperforming IC. (I've even seen one become "best friends" with a director which caused all sorts of chaos and disorganization in the org below them, with the director blissfully unaware because the toxic person was giving side-channel status update to the director outside of the org hierarchy.)
Neutralizing them by giving them unimportant tasks often enables them to be louder elsewhere.
There's also people who are loud because they're trying to make the company better. They'll make you uncomfortable as a manager, and they'll make you have uncomfortable conversations with your leadership. They're...probably the ones to listen to.
True leadership is knowing who to keep close—even if uncomfortable—and who to rapidly manage out.
There's definitely folks that take all they can get, scream about unnecessary things, and are just general drama, but overall are basically an underperforming IC. (I've even seen one become "best friends" with a director which caused all sorts of chaos and disorganization in the org below them, with the director blissfully unaware because the toxic person was giving side-channel status update to the director outside of the org hierarchy.)
Neutralizing them by giving them unimportant tasks often enables them to be louder elsewhere.
There's also people who are loud because they're trying to make the company better. They'll make you uncomfortable as a manager, and they'll make you have uncomfortable conversations with your leadership. They're...probably the ones to listen to.
True leadership is knowing who to keep close—even if uncomfortable—and who to rapidly manage out.