My company rewards impact because we work in a competitive industry and we feel like we cannot afford to waste time on unnecessary complexity. Our goal is to make money and if it doesn't meet business goals we don't waste time on it.

Now, promotion time comes around. Engineer B’s work practically writes itself into a promotion packet: “Designed and implemented a scalable event-driven architecture, introduced a reusable abstraction layer adopted by multiple teams, and built a configuration framework enabling future extensibility.” That practically screams Staff+.

What are these companies where you have unlimited money to pay engineers to solve problems in less efficient ways??