It might not impact your bonus but it can be added to a doc detailing your accomplishments for justifying a promotion (or at least as a potential topic reminder when interviewing), and can help ensure positive feedback from coworkers when management asks them about you. If there's anything generalizable from the experience ("I once saw something similar and so I did such and such to try to confirm or rule it out") you can sometimes multiply the value to yourself and the company by documenting it, automating it, hosting a lunch and learn type of thing...
It all depends of course.. But in any case you have to be the primary person looking out for your own interests since it's the rare manager who will go beyond the minimum guidance, support, and feedback. On the other hand some engineers go too far on self-interest and seemingly start the fires that they then 'heroically' fight to get high level cross-team attention and fast-tracked up the ladder...
It all depends of course.. But in any case you have to be the primary person looking out for your own interests since it's the rare manager who will go beyond the minimum guidance, support, and feedback. On the other hand some engineers go too far on self-interest and seemingly start the fires that they then 'heroically' fight to get high level cross-team attention and fast-tracked up the ladder...