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> Should I help my coworker through a problem? End of the month, my KPIs might be negatively impacted, whereas theirs were boosted.

That's why you have mentoring as a metric.

Big tech holds impersonal performance/promotion calibration meetings where written track records are debated, so this work goes unmeasured.

Calibrations are far from impersonal. Managers absolutely play favorites in who they stick out their necks for.

As an IC, you don't really get a say in what your metrics are though.