How do you deal with a situation where someone steals ideas from your work but gives you no credit?
Situation: You start a project A which nobody in the team has done before, build a small prototype which doesn't solve the entire spectrum of problems but you need more time to do the rest. You then get moved to another high priority project B. Then someone from the team picks up ideas from what you did in Project A, adds some stuff to it which is pretty obvious and presents it as his/her own POC. In the meantime, the manager is sly and not completely transparent about it with you, knowing well that you have started the project A and would like to take it forward once project B is complete. How do you deal with such situation? Should you call it out for what it is? Should you demand credit? Because the other person is surely gonna get a promotion for this. How do you come to work when you're gonna be angry?
In team meetings, share your ideas there first, so your boss can’t do this to you anymore. This is how I handled it.
Ideas without execution ( and how it will be developed) are worthless for me. Next time get your idea on paper / shared doc and ask coworkers for feedback.
Ideas are worth nothing. If your PoC was 1 week effort and later that dude worked 1 or 2 quarters for implementing and productionizing then they probably deserve the promo for it..
This is life. Get used to it. Creative people always get the shaft. Go do entrepreneurship if you really want credit for your ideas. Otherwise keep leetcoding and increasing your TC
Call your manager on it, one-on-one, in a non confrontational way. Tell him how you feel and what you want him to do to correct it. If you can't trust your manager and call him out when he does you wrong then he is not worth working for. I generally don't recommend people get hung up on getting credit for ideas, but it sounds like you actually did a substantial amount of the work. You should be able to get credit for that.