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>Everything thinks that it's actually easy, and no one gives you credit for it. It's not clear to me what you mean by getting credit. I'm usually one of the 1

>Everything thinks that it's actually easy, and no one gives you credit for it. It's not clear to me what you mean by getting credit. I'm usually one of the 1-2 "go-to" people on my dev teams. I'm recognized for it constantly. I get comments like, "I wish you were on all our projects." Meaningful financial recognition is less common, but I occasionally get nice bonuses. FWIW the things I regularly get credit for have little to do with code quality. The things I get recognition for are bringing disparate teams together and leading them to solve complex problems. I can only recall having received 2 compliments for my coding ability, by other coders, in almost 20 years of professional coding.

sirmoveon 9y ago
I've heard people claim the "I bring disparate teams together..." before. I don't know the details of your particular situations but in the situations I've been involved, both times, it has been people taking credit for the work of others.
- some_account 9y ago
  Me too. There are people at my current job who presents the work of others and get a lot of credit for it. The boss has no idea what the builders are doing even.
- Consultant32452 9y ago
  In the most recent case I can think of the identity management on a big bank's 16 mainframes was being changed. There were 4 technical teams including QA plus 2 outside vendors and 2 business teams representing mainframe users and identity management system support. And there were a few bad actors in the mix. About halfway through the project several of the teams started refusing to have meetings unless I was present even if the subject had nothing to do with me, "You're the only one who knows what's going on around here." None of the technical teams could understand the lingo of the other technical teams. So I had to figure that out and translate for everyone. I helped the QA team write test scripts for all the systems involved, not just mine. I helped front-end user support write up troubleshooting guides on systems that weren't mine. And I even wound up assisting one of the other dev teams debug code. While I did solve a lot of technical problems, the big thing I brought to the table for this project was helping mitigate social problems. I got major personal kudos and a bonus of about 30% of my yearly salary.

sirmoveon 9y ago

I've heard people claim the "I bring disparate teams together..." before. I don't know the details of your particular situations but in the situations I've been involved, both times, it has been people taking credit for the work of others.

some_account 9y ago
Me too. There are people at my current job who presents the work of others and get a lot of credit for it. The boss has no idea what the builders are doing even.
Consultant32452 9y ago
In the most recent case I can think of the identity management on a big bank's 16 mainframes was being changed. There were 4 technical teams including QA plus 2 outside vendors and 2 business teams representing mainframe users and identity management system support. And there were a few bad actors in the mix. About halfway through the project several of the teams started refusing to have meetings unless I was present even if the subject had nothing to do with me, "You're the only one who knows what's going on around here." None of the technical teams could understand the lingo of the other technical teams. So I had to figure that out and translate for everyone. I helped the QA team write test scripts for all the systems involved, not just mine. I helped front-end user support write up troubleshooting guides on systems that weren't mine. And I even wound up assisting one of the other dev teams debug code. While I did solve a lot of technical problems, the big thing I brought to the table for this project was helping mitigate social problems. I got major personal kudos and a bonus of about 30% of my yearly salary.