But what about Engineer FAANG: Who will get promoted based on individual impact?
I've found convincing everyone else an engineering team needs to focus doesn't take too long. Managers are not shocked or confused to hear that a team drowning needs to do less.
The individual engineers though, those can be the hardest. How does management split credit for group effort? Will the leader of the project get promoted, even though their contribution may in total be less than others on the project? What happens to my ongoing work, will I get skewered in "calibrations" when other teams talk about how I dropped everything to work on something to important to them?
I've found convincing everyone else an engineering team needs to focus doesn't take too long. Managers are not shocked or confused to hear that a team drowning needs to do less.
The individual engineers though, those can be the hardest. How does management split credit for group effort? Will the leader of the project get promoted, even though their contribution may in total be less than others on the project? What happens to my ongoing work, will I get skewered in "calibrations" when other teams talk about how I dropped everything to work on something to important to them?