Someone in an adjacent team once told me that because leadership doesn't acknowledge pre-incident bugs that were fixed, some people resorted to storing these kind of information with them till the incident happened.
Once the incident happened, they would jump in, solve the incident in record time, and then get credited with solving a S1/S2 incident.
Next review cycle, they would either get promoted or get good ratings.
Not saying this is ethical or good for the team/company, but the entire perf review process needs to change if companies don't want these kinds of things to happen.
Engineer prevents $80-90M recall. credited as a "good catch" lol
CFO mentions the release on the earnings call six months later.
The problem isn't that companies are ungrateful. It's that there's no mechanism to reward the person at the start of the value chain.
Senior engineers: how do you make invisible impact visible before review season?