Work on What Matters
At my previous company, I worked on high impact, very low visibility work. I was working directly with operations teams around the world in order to enable features that needed to be tweaked globally. It was vital for teams in their specific geography to work properly, but no one beyond those teams and my direct manager understood what I was doing. I enjoyed it because it was literally enabling functionality across countries around the world which was great for our customers and our company.<p>During that time, the team around me dissolved due to severe attrition, leaving a skeleton crew of developers and I was the last remaining developer working on this specific project. During performance review time, I was told I wasn&#x27;t performing at an adequate level because the number of code reviews I performed was very low. When I pointed out that I was the only person on my team, so no one came to me for code reviews their response was that I should have sought out code to review on my own.<p>I quit soon after.