> it's fundamentally low impact, and it's that way by design.

I'd like to keep tugging on this thread, I find it interesting.

In my experience, everyone up my chain of command was motivated to derive as much impact from their reports as they possibly could. If anything, it felt as if the system was designed to reward impact above all else - promotions were given to engineers who could demonstrate their work on _____ increased _____ by x% driving revenue by y%.

Nowhere in the system seemed designed to reward low impact, it really felt the opposite.

When you were at a big tech co, your experience was different?