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• I'd love to [pick your brain / brush off / air a concern] about how you optimized the microservices architecture in the Chicago data center.
• A quick [pulse check / career trajectory / open-ended question] at the beginning of the meeting showed that the team in London was feeling overwhelmed.
• My manager didn't want to [put me on the spot / fizzle out / brush off] during the demo, so she asked me the difficult technical questions in private.
• It is best to ask an [open-ended question / pulse check / unspoken] to get the developer to share more about their challenges in New York.
• The enthusiasm for the new Agile process started to [fizzle out / brush off / air a concern] after just three weeks of daily standups.
• The developer decided to [air a concern / brush off / pick someone's brain] about the lack of automated testing during her performance review in Boston.
• There was an [unspoken / lukewarm / in confidence] agreement among the engineers in Seattle that they wouldn't push code on Friday afternoons.
• Everything we discuss during our weekly sync is held [in confidence / lukewarm / unspoken] , so feel free to speak openly about your career aspirations.
• The team's response to the proposed office relocation to Miami was [lukewarm / unspoken / in confidence] , as most preferred to continue working remotely.
• I was worried my manager would [brush off / fizzle out / put someone on the spot] my complaints about the legacy codebase, but he took them very seriously.
• We mapped out a clear [career trajectory / pulse check / open-ended question] that would lead me to a principal engineer role in our Austin office.

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