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My big company strategy is to troll internal chats/forums for things that seem like interesting problems. Do something to fix them or make them suck a little le
by d0gsg0w00f 2y ago
My big company strategy is to troll internal chats/forums for things that seem like interesting problems. Do something to fix them or make them suck a little less.
Always be building solid, interesting things and make sure that if someone, for some reason finds them, that they would say "wow, this is cool, who made this?"
Then I casually share links to those things in the right context. If I get a 10% hit rate then I'm happy.
Do this all day every day between assigned projects 9-5 and you'd be amazed at the network you can build outside your own team. Keeps the options open for lateral movement.
- underdeserver 2y agoI tried that for a while. Makes some of your peers happier, but almost never gets you any credit. I'm not smart or quick enough to consistently do that and my job without it taking a toll, so it ends up not being worth it most of the time.
- tdeck 2y agoThis reminds me of a side project that got me multiple peer bonuses from strangers at Google. At some point the company decided to switch software for the performance eval system, and decided that everyone would have to copy their past review manually, piece by piece, into all the form fields of the new tool. In the FAQ they said that people asked if they could do this automatically and it wasn't practical to automate this process. So I took a few hours one day and made a Chrome extension that did it for you. Wasn't hard to write. Saved people maybe 5 minutes. Some folks appreciated that so much they spent the 5 minutes nominating me for a peer bonus! I never really capitalized on that in any lasting way though.
- d0gsg0w00f 2y agoYeah, but you left an impression and if you had something you needed from their department you could reach out cold and get a warm welcome.