Recognition is stupidly cheap.
If I can do that without it being a fluke, they’d better bump my salary.
Would you settle for a certificate?
My landlord doesnt take certificates.
If I can do that without it being a fluke, they’d better bump my salary.
This is exceptionally bad, but sadly true.
If you have an engineer who can unblock teams and fix issues in an hour that others take a week or cannot fix at all, they are gonna jump ship if they can't be recognized.
At that point you've lost a valuable resource.