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Why technical expertise does not guarantee career advancement

I have been the lead infrastructure engineer for three years but they keep hiring people above me instead of promoting me and I do not understand what I am doing wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You keep getting passed over for people hired above you, and you don't know why.

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