Is Maintenance Work a Master and Marker?

You have to make maintenance work an explicit thing that is rewarded. You have to be willing to say like we will promote somebody for doing maintenance And if you can demonstrate that you have somehow improved the code quality of you know a library or whateveryou're going to get a promotion out of that. Which can be problematic. I mean, I certainly was a really So sun there was this distinguished engineer Rank that was this basically country club that voted on its own membership It was kind of outside of the normal promotion process and it was a huge and contentious deal.