Certainly it counts for something. And I fully support it leading to great reviews for OP. But being good at your job isn't the same as being able to do the nex

Certainly it counts for something. And I fully support it leading to great reviews for OP. But being good at your job isn't the same as being able to do the next job up the promotion ladder. OP was likely on if the most impactful engineers at his level, but he failed to demonstrate he could perform the job of a Senior Engineer, which has a much greater scope than bug fixes and documentation. Everyone calls it out as playing politics, but really it's just metric driven career development. If you can't/don't measure it, how do you know it improved? How do you know there was a gap in company value to start with?