More like you aren't going to get promoted for automating someone else's toil. Also, now who's going to support it, better deprecate it since the library changed / got deprecated / it's tuesday.
> More like you aren't going to get promoted for automating someone else's toil.
Lots of people were promoted for automating these things. They built easy to use services, got extra headcount since they became important and climbed the ranks. So not sure why you'd think that.
It may be different at other companies, but at Google building stuff that many other engineers depends on is a major way to get promoted. Of course if you automate something and nobody uses your automation tooling then you wont get promoted, but if your work gets used by basically every new engineer you'll climb the ranks quickly.
Lots of people were promoted for automating these things. They built easy to use services, got extra headcount since they became important and climbed the ranks. So not sure why you'd think that.
It may be different at other companies, but at Google building stuff that many other engineers depends on is a major way to get promoted. Of course if you automate something and nobody uses your automation tooling then you wont get promoted, but if your work gets used by basically every new engineer you'll climb the ranks quickly.