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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.

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Your team treats asking questions as weakness, so people struggle in silence and problems keep piling up.

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