Question: I am a software developer for the last 5 years. I like this work and since I started this career I have been in 3 companies. Each change resulted a good raise of the salary and more interesting projects.
The last months I am feeling that I am getting more and more pushed to the ropes. The tasks that I have to do seem to get more difficult for me but my co-workers seem to struggle as much as they always struggled.

The last two weeks I actually didn't manage to finish what I was supposed to finish (although I was affected and driven backwards by the work that other developers had to do).
I was expecting to get told off for my performance but nothing happened. The meeting went smoothly and I am just expected to make a pull request for my code (I am starting another project and that was decided before the time period I am speaking about).

I don't know if they were expecting me to crash and burn and I didn't and that's why people were happy. I dont know if they are just polite.
I know that openness is a thing where I work and they would tell me something and also developers are hard to find where I live so they would not risk making me want to go for two bad weeks.

So I want to ask, assuming the management identified my bad performance (I am sure they did), why would they not tell me anything about it?

P.S. I have already spoken to a colleague today to have some guidance and work with him to improve myself, but I am sure he didn't have the time to tell to anyone yet.

Answer: 
Hey – go have a private chat with your *manager.* That's part of what s/he's there for. Don't let these feelings stay bottled-up inside of you. Go get some *perspective.*
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That hardly constitutes a pattern of bad performance and not something where I would expect management to feel the need to intervene. Even the best of us miss the mark now and then. Your boss knows this. If you've otherwise been a good employee, they very likely didn't even notice. I can almost guarantee your boss has much bigger things to worry about than an employee who had a bad 2 weeks. Two weeks in years-long career is nothing.

So if you've identified the problem, go ahead and fix it. Make sure these last 2 weeks don't become a prolonged pattern and get your performance back to where it needs to be. Then quit being hard on yourself and carry on as usual. You're doing fine.