Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha...
by zeroonetwothree on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:41AM
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Even when they do recognize it itβs unlikely to be weighed the same as the engineer who heroically stays up all night fixing a critical issue.
Especially with many organizations focused on data or metrics for performance reviews or promotions being able to say you fixed an outage that was costing $X million per hour comes across much better than a vague counterfactual notion that your high code quality prevented Y such outages in the first place.
And great engineers are consistently good at this type of passive, keeping the lights on work, but it does not reflect on their quantifiable work, so orgs do not include this in performance reviews. It is up to your manager to recognize this and advocate for you.