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This is the right approach. As an individual engineer, you are not paid enough to care about business problems and propose your own solutions and timelines. You are also not given organizational authority, budgets, or agency beyond your line of work.

You literally haven't been given the tools to own metrics and OKRs. And moving those metrics and OKRs doesn't get you more money.

So why would you care? You sound rational to me.

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And even if/when you are paid well, you probably aren't given any meaningful ability to do the things necessary for those business problems. Corporate inertia is strong.

> And moving those metrics and OKRs doesn't get you more money.

Because you are already being paid to move those metrics and OKRs. Not doing so means you're not actually doing your job and, in a well managed company (which are admittedly few and far between), will be rightfully fired and replaced by someone who does.

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