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As long as you keep getting the performance review brownie points, because if you don't you are out and it doesn't matter.

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No matter how dire things are, the people who can get something done that nobody else can (or on timelines they couldn't) tend to do okay in performance reviews. At least in my experience.

There are easier ways to get a false positive though, if you're open to lying, hogging credit, bus chucks etc. I sometimes wonder if I'm the crazy one for Doing Things Right when I could be spending time with my family instead.

If you're working regular extra hours to "do things right" instead of spending time with your family, then yeah you might want to reconsider. But by all means, do it during the normal workday. Like you said, people notice and it gets recognized. Unless you're in a very disfunctional org, in which case find a better employer.

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