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> You don't get promotions/pay hikes/bonuses for taking garbage out

Cleaning and streamlining processes and procedures can have huge effects on the company and get you noticed.

It starts with little things, Say you decrease compilation time by 30sec which could add up to hours a week. Or clean up documentation, making on boarding new devs easier.

Then one day you clean up something that has a huge impact on the company. Like a 40% reduction on server costs, by dynamic scaling... Then you're likely to get a promotion...