Oh this hasn't happened to me, I've been pretty proactive about interacting with both my direct manager and several levels above them, but I have seen it happen

Oh this hasn't happened to me, I've been pretty proactive about interacting with both my direct manager and several levels above them, but I have seen it happen to other devs. Especially ones from east Asia who seem to culturally focus a lot more on doing a great job on N level tasks instead of focusing on N+1 level tasks.