> And the company is perfectly happy with my work, since nobody else can get anything done either. I just switched job from a big company to a fast-growing sta

> And the company is perfectly happy with my work, since nobody else can get anything done either. I just switched job from a big company to a fast-growing startup which doubled their engineer team size in one year. I was unhappy with my productivity in the new company, thinking I was not doing enough, but my managers said they were quite happy with my performance. I think I was comparing my productivity with the peak productivity in my previous role where I already spent years working on the system. But what the managers really measured is your relative performance compared to your other peers. So as long as you are doing okay relative to your peers, albeit all being unproductive, you would be okay.