Comment by vietvu

By no mean I am the best dev I know, but I consider myself the best one with finding answer that I have met in person. e.g: fixing bugs, reading docs, even for things I have no exp about.

Anw when I was data engineer at a big corp data team, I was the one the 2 seniors there with 20 juniors, like fresh out of the colleges. So the juniors ended up ask me with everything since it was faster than googling them self. I still deliver things in my responsibilities since I can do it quick, also spend like one third of my times to mentoring them. Later, I found out that my manager thought I was slacking off, not working to my full potential.

Yes, the manager never payed attention to how the team worked. All the juniors thought that I was the reason the team was running smoothly and quickly. Ok, fine, I realized sometimes you cannot just work, you need to sell your work, even in your companies.

The nature of data engineer job is to ensure things run ok. So everything too well for a long time, then the higher ups might think it is easy. It might sound like bad thing, but when a bug happened, sometimes I let it be if it is not too serious, to let it rises to the higher ups. Of course being able to solve it quickly is a must.