--- title: Why your best engineers stay silent in meetings | daily.dev description: Senior engineers often stay silent in meetings not because they lack questions, but because the environment makes asking them socially costly. This silence... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ksn01ecgl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why your best engineers stay silent in meetings | daily.dev og:description: Senior engineers often stay silent in meetings not because they lack questions, but because the environment makes asking them socially costly. This silence... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ksn01ecgl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kSn01EcGL.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why your best engineers stay silent in meetings **[Devs Tech](https://daily.dev/sources/devstech)** · [@stmoreau](https://daily.dev/stmoreau) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Senior engineers often stay silent in meetings not because they lack questions, but because the environment makes asking them socially costly. This silence creates hidden confusion that leads to bugs, missed deadlines, and incorrect implementations. Engineering leaders can address this by modeling vulnerability themselves, rewarding questions publicly, creating safe channels for confusion, and having those who struggled with concepts document them for others. The goal is building a culture where surfacing confusion early becomes the norm rather than hiding it until it causes damage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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