--- title: Stop telling your engineers to "work on visibility" description: Engineering managers should own visibility for their team's work rather than pushing engineers to self-promote. When engineers need brag docs, skip-levels, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bchfwoero twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop telling your engineers to "work on visibility" | daily.dev og:description: Engineering managers should own visibility for their team's work rather than pushing engineers to self-promote. When engineers need brag docs, skip-levels, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bchfwoero og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bCHfwOero.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop telling your engineers to "work on visibility" **[The Dev Craft](https://daily.dev/sources/thedevcraft)** · [@stmoreau](https://daily.dev/stmoreau) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Engineering managers should own visibility for their team's work rather than pushing engineers to self-promote. When engineers need brag docs, skip-levels, and constant self-marketing to get recognized, it signals broken management systems. Managers should restructure 1:1s for discovery, handle upward communication themselves, create team rituals that surface work naturally, actively sponsor quiet contributors, and separate impact from self-promotion ability in evaluations. The visibility problem is a management responsibility, not an engineering one. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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