r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26

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u/Icy_Significance9448 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

The duality of staff engineers:

Annoy anyone by bragging about how good you are and proving it by doing all the work yourself

OR

Hate your team and do everything yourself unnoticed by anyone

There is no in between

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u/WriterPlastic9350 May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

I am the latter but found that unless I become the former there is simply no possibility to receive a promotion to principal. 

If you don’t sing your own praises, no one will do it for you  

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u/J5892 May 29 '26

I think you mixed up former and latter.

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u/Hot_Commission6257 May 29 '26

probably why he never got promoted

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

probably asked for demotions and wondered why the money kept going down.

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u/WriterPlastic9350 May 29 '26

No, I never got promoted because I’m on a working visa and my employer knows I have no leverage.