>...but a lot of engineers disdain self-promotion. Assuming you're doing good work your boss should be your strongest advocate and trying to help get you recog

>...but a lot of engineers disdain self-promotion. Assuming you're doing good work your boss should be your strongest advocate and trying to help get you recognized and promoted. But if you're not inclined to self-promote then it definitely hurts and lots of folks on HN say they suffer from some level of impostor syndrome. If someone thinks "Should I really be here, am I really good enough?" they may also overly discount the value of their work and think there is nothing worthy of promotion in both senses of the word.