[oujheush]

What about someone who works 10-12 hours and accomplishes the most tasks? I think you have to understand the corporate mindset without abandoning your black-belt coder-fu. Yes, you have to emphasize how difficult what you did was. You have to point out what you've accomplished. And tie yourself in directly with producing specific pieces of revenue wherever possible.

But this will all be helped if you can program well. And if you want to play office politics, it'll be useful to have the ability to accomplish someone else's job in half the time, if you really can.