If you are not a shareholder of the company you work at, you are basically a cow that is being milked and once you no longer can be milked or business decides t

If you are not a shareholder of the company you work at, you are basically a cow that is being milked and once you no longer can be milked or business decides they need to pivot to pork, you'll get slaughtered. Always do bare minimum, just enough to not be fired but keep your managers upset. Never do more than what you are paid to do and adjust your performance based on how happy you are with the pay and how much money company makes off your work. Seen examples when employee on £80k found a way to optimise some queries in the product. That translated to substantially lowered bills and increased sales. Talking millions in extra revenue. Did they get a bonus? Bump in the salary? No. Soon after company found a new investor who brought in their own team and that developer was let go. Lesson - never go out of your way, never do more than you are asked to do. Save any brilliant ideas to yourself. Maybe when they let you go, you will use them at your own business and get competitive advantage.