[emperorcezar]

> Bug fixes and incremental features will generally not get you promoted for good reasons.

This is exceptionally bad, but sadly true.

If you have an engineer who can unblock teams and fix issues in an hour that others take a week or cannot fix at all, they are gonna jump ship if they can't be recognized.

At that point you've lost a valuable resource.

[Novashi]

Recognition is stupidly cheap.

If I can do that without it being a fluke, they’d better bump my salary.

[mcguire]

Would you settle for a certificate?

[wbl]

My landlord doesnt take certificates.

[auiya]

Or a "kudos"? (page 18 of the PDF)