On Being A Principal Engineer

The manager’s path I bought and read The Manager’s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database Engineer aspiring to become a principal engineer in my organization. At SendGrid, principal engineer and principal engineer 2 are manager and director level roles respectively without having human direct reports. We had just overhauled the career ladd

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ここでいう principal engineer は Andrew Grove の言う knowhow manager にかなり近い概念ぽい / "One of the most important competencies of a principal engineer is to become a force multiplier."