> It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engine

> It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engineering does their job,product many not and vice versa. A somewhat related anecdote that I love: In an online lending company where I was a manager before, I had the Data Science team reporting to me. At some point, one of the interns created a variable that improved the ML risk scoring model in such a way that the loan default decreased in about 2%. That is HUGE for a portfolio that has something like 10% default. This intern's variable saved the company a tremendous amount of money... yet the company did not give him anything for an improvement that was 100% measurable in $.