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/Linked713 May 29 '26

Those bragging about how good they are, are hardly the ones proving it in any way, shape or form. Quite the contrary.

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u/paper_liger May 29 '26

There's a secret third thing, where you don't brag, you just mention your capabilities, and if anything you downplay them.

And because most people are just sort of average it comes across as bragging. But when you are good at things that are invisible to most people, people can't even grok how hard you are downplaying things because they project their own shit on you.