Something's off, and you can't quite screenshot it. Like the background hum of a fluorescent strip light that says this place is costing you more than it's giving you. Turns out that hum has a pattern, and it's five little signs that stack up while your career sits in someone else's backlog.
I spoke with Sarala Paliwal, ex-senior director of engineering at IBM and Siemens, about the truth behind 'we'll revisit this,' 'timing's not right,' 'you're just so valuable where you are'.
What we get into:
Why "we'll revisit this next quarter" is a locked door with a fresh coat of paint
How to tell a slow-to-promote company from one with no real path for you
The difference between a team taking collective credit and one person quietly pocketing yours
What your gut already knows before your head's ready to admit it
This isn't your permission slip to rage-quit by Monday. But it might be a nudge to stop waiting for someone else to hit deploy on your career.
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