The Engineering Visibility Score
Great engineers don't get promoted. Visible ones do.
Take the free Engineering Visibility Score assessment. In 3 minutes, find out if your career is on track — or if you're the best-kept secret in your org.
Join 500+ senior engineers who've already taken it. No fluff. No BS.
You're great at your job. That's the problem.
You ship features. You mentor juniors. You solve the hard problems nobody else can. You stay late. You debug production at 2am.
And then someone who talks more in meetings gets promoted over you.
Sound familiar?
Here's what nobody told you in computer science: Technical excellence is the MINIMUM requirement for senior roles. It's table stakes.
The difference between a Senior Engineer and a Director isn't technical skill — it's visibility, strategic communication, and influence.
The engineers who get ahead aren't smarter than you. They're just better at making their work visible, translating technical impact into business language, and building relationships with the people who make promotion decisions.
This isn't fair. But it IS the game. And right now, you're not playing it.
Find out where you stand. In 3 minutes.
The Engineering Visibility Score measures you on 5 dimensions that determine whether you get promoted — or get overlooked:
Visibility
Do decision-makers know what you do?
Strategic Communication
Can you translate tech into business?
Influence
Do you shape decisions, or just execute them?
Technical Leverage
Are you multiplying, or bottlenecking?
Career Intentionality
Do you have a plan, or a hope?
10 questions. Brutally honest. Your personalized report tells you exactly what's holding you back — and what to do about it.
Free. No credit card. Takes 3 minutes.
250,000+ impressions on LinkedIn
"I've been an Engineering Manager for years, managing 30+ engineers. The pattern is always the same: the most talented engineers are often the least visible. They assume good work speaks for itself. It doesn't.
I've watched mediocre engineers get promoted because they communicated better. Not because they politicked — because they made their impact CLEAR.
If you're an engineer reading this: your manager can't promote what they can't articulate. Make your work visible. Write it down. Present it. Talk about it. Your code won't speak for itself. You have to speak for it."
— Thomas Aistleitner
30+ engineers managed · 5 teams · Senior Engineering Manager at Sportradar
Who's behind this?
I'm Thomas Aistleitner. Senior Engineering Manager at Sportradar, where I lead 30+ engineers across 5 teams.
I've promoted people. I've not promoted people. And I've watched the pattern repeat hundreds of times: the best engineer in the room is rarely the one who gets the opportunity.
Not because the system is broken (though sometimes it is). But because visibility, communication, and influence are SKILLS — and most engineers never learn them.
I started talking about this on LinkedIn. Turns out, a lot of people felt the same way. My posts went viral. Senior ICs, tech leads, and EMs started reaching out saying "nobody ever told me this."
So I built this assessment to help you see what's actually holding your career back. The assessment is free. The insights are real. And if you want to go deeper, I offer coaching for senior engineers and tech leads who are ready to stop being invisible.
Stop building in silence.
Your career isn't going to figure itself out. Take 3 minutes to find out where you stand — and what to do about it.