The senior engineer death spiral

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I call it the senior engineer death spiral. it usually happens when an engineer goes into a new job, gets a promotion, or even just gets a big project at work. or they ask for a big project because they think to themselves, “oh, if I work harder, do a bigger thing, then I will be rewarded with promotions and what have you,” right? like, that’s the move. and the thing they do is they tell themselves they need to almost cosplay being a more senior engineer than they are.

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