Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB...
by Jensson on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:10PM
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> More like you aren't going to get promoted for automating someone else's toil.
Lots of people were promoted for automating these things. They built easy to use services, got extra headcount since they became important and climbed the ranks. So not sure why you'd think that.
It may be different at other companies, but at Google building stuff that many other engineers depends on is a major way to get promoted. Of course if you automate something and nobody uses your automation tooling then you wont get promoted, but if your work gets used by basically every new engineer you'll climb the ranks quickly.
Lots of people were promoted for automating these things. They built easy to use services, got extra headcount since they became important and climbed the ranks. So not sure why you'd think that.
It may be different at other companies, but at Google building stuff that many other engineers depends on is a major way to get promoted. Of course if you automate something and nobody uses your automation tooling then you wont get promoted, but if your work gets used by basically every new engineer you'll climb the ranks quickly.