The important thing to gather from 'They think I'm a good performer' is to first try and understand your management. For example, in a coding shop where most em

The important thing to gather from 'They think I'm a good performer' is to first try and understand your management. For example, in a coding shop where most employees are Software engineers (and also yours bosses) you have a higher probability that your yardstick and your bosses will be fairly close. However, having non-technical bosses is a bigger challenge, thus the need for you to demonstrate your 'worth' be means other than 'Yeah I just refactored FOO kernel code in BAR module and have 80% test coverage'.