Rewards (i.e. Grade/Salary) at the company are based on your perceived knowledge, value and skill within the company. Basically this boils down to the more voca

Rewards (i.e. Grade/Salary) at the company are based on your perceived knowledge, value and skill within the company. Basically this boils down to the more vocal engineers get better rewards, even if that means taking credit for other peoples work. I believe the issue boils down to management having no true idea of what everyone is doing, so believes the general targeted noise coming out of the work force from select members. You then end up with a lot of people jumping up and down saying 'pick me, pick me...' because they want to be the noise that's noticed.