It’s a cop out, but depends on the company and it’s somewhere in between. Even with success-of-the-company as your compass, other stuff always matters. Good wor

It’s a cop out, but depends on the company and it’s somewhere in between. Even with success-of-the-company as your compass, other stuff always matters. Good work done invisibly can’t be rewarded. Working on the lowest-profile projects is often interchangeable with working on the least important projects to the company. And if you are building credit with the wrong people, maybe you aren’t working on the right problems. There’s obviously the dysfunctional form of all this, but it’s also rare that there’s one simple and obvious “do this thing and it’s best for the company and everyone will automatically understand what you did”