I have been consistently getting high review ratings over the last few review cycles and I was hoping for a promotion to Staff this time. My manager said that I could not be promoted this time since my work did not have enough visibility. I was pissed off at my manager. But he said that he can't do anything about it. WTF? What do I need to do to increase 'visibility'? Hopefully, people experienced in playing this game will answer
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@ -kcu: Please clarify. Do you mean: (1) assisted suicide; (2) see if the new United Health Ins. plan will cover excessive cosmetic surgery as part of the mental health coverage; or (3) grab my crotch while performing?
this problem is within every group, since directors are far from reality and are surrounded by non technical a** lickers who them selves dont know much technical details, directors cannot appreciate actual work coming from engineers.
Go to your director's office and offer him/her a blow job.
Do something in the same vein as this guy and your visibility will skyrocket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d17ggav1Lto
Make sure you respond to emails with large mail lists. Send useless late night emails so every one knows you are still up. Respond to weekend emails.
OP, go back to Delhi
OP,are you eating enough curry?
are u curry or non-curry?
@OP: are you with Todd Sutton group?
People who talk about adding to/critiquing the humongous process get visibility. There's so many buttons you have to press to get code delivered. Also adding code review comments that ensure someone's changes are delayed also increases visibility.
answer emails in the middle of the night, ask for status report to random people and then add managers to your emails trying to sell them their updates as your work, etc
When Samsung says "Jump!", be the first on the team to say "How High?"