> These graduates enter either a managerial track, such as Project and Program Manager or Staff Software Engineer, or they enter a technical track, such as Seni

> These graduates enter either a managerial track, such as Project and Program Manager or Staff Software Engineer, or they enter a technical track, such as Senior Software Engineer and Software Development Engineer II and above. At least at my company, Principal Software Engineer is considered a technical/individual track role, and my assumption was that Principal/Staff Software Engineer at most companies were. Is that not the case?