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The Invisible Debt of Internal Transfers
Internal lateral moves are often sold as career accelerators, but they carry a hidden liability: the institutional debt you leave behind. In this episode, we examine how transferring teams resets your social capital and creates a credibility gap that can stall promotions for eighteen months or more. Using a specific case study from a major fintech firm where an engineer moved laterally to product management, we break down the mechanics of trust decay and why staying put can sometimes be the smarter financial play. We look at data on promotion velocity post-transfer versus those who deepened…
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