This.
“There’s no meeting. No Slack ping. No “Hey, heads up, your gold stars just became red flags.”You just start getting weird feedback.You get passed over.You hear someone less experienced praised for doing the thing you were just told to stop doing.It’s not fair.But it’s not personal.It’s structural. It’s about interpretation. About how your behavior reads in context. About scale. About signal.”
https://tahahussain.substack.com/p/how-senior-engineers-lose-trust