Re:Ask HN: How to Self-Promote at Work?
by chiefalchemist on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:21AM
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That's funny. Because we is a positive. That is, you collaborated with others on your team and produced something significant. Why didn't they value that?
The result is that I often use second-person pronouns to take credit for work I did alone. Once I got called out on it during a job interview, and I had to clarify that no, in fact, I alone was responsible for implementing this great feature I just got through telling you about. The 'we' was a figure of speech I used because I don't want to sound like a pompous ass who takes credit for all the work, even if I deserve credit for all the work, because I did all the work.
Simply using the right pronouns can be a subtle yet effective signal for the purposes of self-promotion.