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You’re Not Getting Promoted Because You’re Too Good At Your Job

Wondering why you didn’t get promoted? Here’s how being too good at execution can actually hold you back.

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Byte-Sized Design
Oct 19, 2025
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I watched a senior engineer get passed over for staff last month.

He was the best debugger on the team. Everyone came to him when things broke. He’d fixed three critical production incidents in the la…

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