[throwaw12]

> If his monetary value to the company was as said why would any other metric like complexity even remotely matter

Here is why: I turned off a feature flag in our feature flagging service which saved company 10% infra cost, do you think I can be promoted to Staff+ and lead 50 engineers?

Promotions and/or recognitions in corporate environments works differently.

I don't agree with it, but this is how it works: If what you did feels simple, anyone else can do it as well, why should we promote you for finding such silly mistake or improvement.

[BobbyTables2]

Same with executives and upper management.

One cannot be a director/VP of 3 people. They need an empire…

[jmalicki]

One can be a VP of 0 people.

Look into what the title means at banks!

[eru]

I was an Executive Director / Vice President at Goldman with 0 reports.

[jmalicki]

Banks are the inversion where a Director is higher than a VP! An ED w/o reports is actually moderately impressive though!

[eru]

Well, I was on the tech side which (at least at Goldman) has comparatively higher powered titles at less reports compared to the real bankers.

I suspect it's because the tech side doesn't run the model where ambitious young people without a clear idea of what to do go work for an investment bank for three years as sort-of 'finishing school'. So there are less juniors to herd for the techies.