As a former Staff Engineer, if you work at a company like this, I would leave. The language in this article is common to a particular type of staff engineer th

As a former Staff Engineer, if you work at a company like this, I would leave. The language in this article is common to a particular type of staff engineer that graces the halls of growth tech companies. It's the analog of mid-level bureaucrats at government organizations or academia. What "in the room" signifies is that you're working at a passive aggressive company that either lacks (1) proper direction so it can have relative autonomy between teams, or (2) requires technical babysitting because the average quality of engineer is low. Both are symptoms of growing too fast or not needing technical competence because the business is doing the heavy hitting.