How do you make sure your influence is visible to the decision makers in the review/ promo process ? Having regular 1:1s with higher ups and flexing your wins, ensuring they are invited to some team meetings you schedule with your team so they have visibility into your processes, etc? What are some things you do to make sure your contributions don’t get unnoticed ? Tc:450k
As a manager you get recognition based on the upwards and sideways relationships you build and how much impact your product has. No one cares about how good you are at 1 on 1s, interviews or team building as long as you don't cause your work horses to leave. This is why bad managers can get promoted and sometimes wonderful managers are stuck. Relationships are something you can control and impact is basically mostly up the team you land in and the PM you get. In worst case you need to do PM's job for him to get recognition for your teams product. Another option is to do showpony projects on the side, but that again either takes focus off your team or requires overtime.
Thats the exact reason “software” industry is getting doomed 👆👆. No focus on actual engineering work , rather focus more on “perception” and psuedo “relations”.
At Google at least, it's really important to create visibility and publicly celebrate your team's launches/wins. Send out a brag email when you launch/land something, drive the agenda of 1:1s with your manager/skip to talk about what you're working on, etc.
Work on visible things to begin with Assume that people sitting in calibration and promo comity are non technical and it will be all about perception