At the start of your career, it’s only natural that you won’t yet know about all kinds of things, but it’s extremely important not to be embarrassed that you don’t know. If your primary motivation is to make the people working above you think, “Wow, this guy’s so clever,” they’re going to see through you every time. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, you’ll come across as vain and leave a bad impression. At the end of the day, what the company wants most from its new hires is someone who is happy to admit they don’t know everything. But at the same time, they don’t want you to ask your
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