It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engineering does their job,product many not and vice versa.
Even if everyone does their job exceedingly well, a sub optimal strategy could kill the company. Or the market could shift. How do you account when company stops growing? If the spending will only go up, how will the company justify the increase in budget when there are bad times.
> It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engineering does their job,product many not and vice versa.
A somewhat related anecdote that I love: In an online lending company where I was a manager before, I had the Data Science team reporting to me. At some point, one of the interns created a variable that improved the ML risk scoring model in such a way that the loan default decreased in about 2%. That is HUGE for a portfolio that has something like 10% default. This intern's variable saved the company a tremendous amount of money... yet the company did not give him anything for an improvement that was 100% measurable in $.
It is hard if not impossible to attribute an individual employee's performance to company growth. Many variables can impact company growth - so even if engineering does their job,product many not and vice versa.
Even if everyone does their job exceedingly well, a sub optimal strategy could kill the company. Or the market could shift. How do you account when company stops growing? If the spending will only go up, how will the company justify the increase in budget when there are bad times.