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Scenario

When engineering teams punish intellectual honesty

Our engineering team has developed this culture where asking questions or admitting you don't understand something is seen as slowing everyone down, so people just figure things out in isolation and we keep building technical debt because no one wants to look stupid. We're all experienced engineers but we've created an environment where collaboration feels like weakness and I don't know how to change it without calling out specific people.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has optimized for the appearance of competence over actual learning, creating systemic problems that require the very vulnerability the culture discourages.

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