[gct]

At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.

[auggierose]

Hehe, no wonder big tech doesn't get anything done.

[taurath]

It’s more that it takes so long to get anything done, the effort and results need to be recorded because it most often won’t be obvious from the impact. It’s hard to make a splash on a production system maintained by 30 other people, but you can usually make things better, but it won’t always be obvious.

[yvdriess]

It's the overhead cost caused by trust breakdown. (tbf sometimes the timesheets are there for legal/tax reasons)

[tester756]

whats ur point, there's countless of examples to counter your statement

from Windows, Linux, Chromium, VS Code, programming langugages, tools like k8s, AI to revenue! :D

[SoftTalker]

I guess they don’t know how or don’t bother to evaluate people on what they actually contribute? Just number of meetings attended, number of tickets closed?

[izacus]

Those meetings were the authors actual contributions. Any really senior person isn't going to be coding.

[Arainach]

What does "actually contributed" mean?

Joe implemented feature A. Sandra implemented feature B. Raj implemented C. All launched in July. Since then metric X is up 20%. Who gets credit, and what does that credit really mean?

Now say all 3 did that in 3 different products. One produced a 200% improvement in an internal product, one a 40% improvement in a product with thousands of users, one a 1% improvement in a product with a billion users? Compare *that*.

[gct]

Managers can be lazy just like anyone.

[brailsafe]

Keeping track of actual value would require actually rewarding people proportionally; all jobs ever only really care about how often you're on time or your meeting attendance record.

[Insanity]

I’ve been working in FAANG for some years in a senior position. Never had to track or speak to things like this lol.

[astrange]

I know some of them do this, but ours doesn't. There is a once yearly self-review, and as far as I can tell it has literally no impact on your actual performance review and compensation, which are basically entirely up to your manager's observations of you.

So it is important to keep your manager informally up to date on what you're doing, at least during the weeks they're thinking about performance.

[lrem]

No I don’t.