I have 5 yoe and have had varying perspectives of impressions in my 3 jobs so far. First job, I worked at a company (ibm, ebay, yahoo sort of company) where I interned at. During standups, I have highlighted whatever I have done (no matter how trivial things were), and had the team hyped up with whatever I was doing. During one on one with my manager, I reiterated my achievements and about promotions. As a result, I was promoted 3 times in 2 years. Second job, I moved to a smaller company. I was working on my side project so I didnt care too much about promotion or advocating my work. As a result, not a single promotion in 2-3 years and no one appreciated my work. Now at Google, I have so far had great impressions and stuck with what I did in my first job. Team is excited for my work and as a result, things get snowballed (interesting work come to me, I get to participate in broader scope). So far so good. The catch is, you make first great impressions and if you slack off, then things go back to normal. Use that great impressions and leverage more opportunities. This works.
I only take advice from people making 1.5x my tc or more. Kindly do the needful
Impressions do matter, but it’s more about intent. If you don’t ask for a promotion, you won’t get one. The natural thing engineers say to themselves is “my hard work will show itself and speak for me”. It often doesn’t and your skip still doesn’t know who you are or what you do.
So what if you mess up a first impression? Do you just quit and say the vibe was off?
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