Why visibility does matter

Imagine two senior AI Engineers in an enterprise company. 

One is Markus. Markus keeps his head down, works on task after the task, ticket after ticket. He does not have time for the corporate time-wasters. Presenting at all-hands or domain Guilds? No, thanks, this does not help to solve this urgent issue, nor does it help to accomplish his tasks. By the way, he does not even attend weekly team meetings anymore: such a waste of time! And if there is anything important, his manager knows how to find him, and they do have regular 1-to-1 with manager exactly for this purpose.

On the same team, there is Fabian. He also has his hands full, as well as his to-do list. However, he finds time now and then to volunteer to present at large department-wide meetings. He never misses the weekly team meetings, and during them, he is fully focused on the discussions and brings up topics. 

So he has great visibility within the team and outside the team too. 

It does have a down-side, namely many people reach out to him for help or advice, but by now, he is well-connected to forward the question to a more appropriate expert if he can't answer it himself. And whenever he is stuck, he can find help relatively quickly too.

Now imagine the organisation is going through a large re-org and by the time of the next promotion cycles, the team has a new manager. 

Who do you think has a larger chance of getting promoted?

Don't wait till it happens to you, start work on your visibility today.