[rsp1984]

When I was at Google their compensation system tended to unfairly bias toward people delivering features and I and others argued for recognition of people that made delivering those features possible (which finally came about in 2009).

Interesting. I started at Google as a SWE in 2009 and I did not see any of this. I left in 2011 so I don't know how the situation is today.

However when I worked there it was obvious that when promotion cycle came everyone was first to claim they "put feature X into Y", even if they were just the ones doing the wiring, not the ones implementing the actual thing.

The situation was aggravated by the fact that promotions were (probably still are) in the hands of "promotion committees" (which most often did not have a damn clue about your product or team and who contributed what in reality) and not in the hands of your boss. As a result I saw promotions biased towards the most shameless liars and self-promoters.