[35fbe7d3d5b9]

The fastest way to cap your career growth is to think about yourself as someone whose role is to take a spec and provide a technical solution inside that box.

Upper management values – and pays accordingly – people who go beyond that. Learn some finance, learn to mentor others, learn to talk with a customer and understand what they're really after. You'll gain trust and find that you're being pulled into things far earlier in the development pipeline, which often puts you in a place to build better products.

[majormajor]

Upper management won't value you constantly disagreeing with them on risk/reward tradeoffs like "how finished does the code need to be" or "how many bugs are OK for now." Maybe they say "yes, but if we don't get it done by the deadline, we might lose $LARGE_NUMBER in business because..." After that point, there's a difference between seen as usefully raising a concern and being stubborn and annoying.

Or, possibly upper management is just clueless to the cost of the bugs that are shipping. But you still probably won't get far if you just say "this is too buggy" and can't show them why they're wrong and you're right about it harming the business. Maybe you can persuade them if you go get some data. Maybe not.

Ultimately, if the kind of software they want doesn't line up with the kind of software you want to build, don't expect to get rewarded for constantly complaining about it. You're probably better off finding a place where you align better in terms of what type of software they want to ship.

[trhway]

It's the fastest way to learn to understand your career limits, stop worrying and start to love what is possible to love in that job

>Upper management values – and pays accordingly – people who go beyond that

They love when many do that while they pay accordingly only to the very few in order to entice the others.

[H8crilA]

Oh, playing the ladder can be rewarding. But you don't achieve that by saying "our code will be piss if we ship too quickly" if a decision has already been made without you. Don't be clueless, you must get your seat at the table first.

[RobRivera]

ive had issues with management paying me accordingly. lucky me in obsessed with mentoring