This is company dependent. I can speak from my experience on the promo committee of a FAANG. Visibility matters - it shouldn’t, folks are aware of this bias, bu

This is company dependent. I can speak from my experience on the promo committee of a FAANG. Visibility matters - it shouldn’t, folks are aware of this bias, but it happens anyways. However, it’s purely org level visibility that matters. In the sessions I’ve been a part of, packets are calibrated with org directors against other packets in the same org. If your work, or the team’s work, was visible across the org then there’s bias in your favor because the impact is easy to identify. If your work wasn’t visible then someone will almost certainly ask “what was the impact here?” and then it’s up to your manager to convince the room of impact. To be clear, no one at the org level calibrations knows what’s going in ads. All they know is what are the big things that happened in their org this cycle. Even if you happen to work on tools that only HR uses, visibility is still there because that’s all your directors are focused on - just be sure they see your piece of it.