The biggest thing you can do is to align yourself as working together with your managers. You are not a code monkey. What does this mean? Well, if they assign

The biggest thing you can do is to align yourself as working together with your managers. You are not a code monkey. What does this mean? Well, if they assign you a vague task, you get clearer about it, you ask them why they want to do it, what the objective is. A lot of the time, you could be wrong, and with their objective it makes sense. A lot of the time you'll be right. The best way to show it is to mock it up, and explain your thinking on why it's wrong. The biggest killer is when you feel like a code monkey, it's usually not the work.