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The linked “StaffEng” stuff is fairly ridiculous: “In literature, recurring character patterns are called archetypes, such as the "hero" or the "trickster," an
by pram 5y ago
The linked “StaffEng” stuff is fairly ridiculous:
“In literature, recurring character patterns are called archetypes, such as the "hero" or the "trickster," and the archetype term is helpful for labeling these frequent variants of Staff-plus engineers.”
How does anyone take this seriously?
- jboggan 5y agoThey've read Joseph Campbell and appreciate the analogy.
- Veen 5y agoJung, surely?
- icedchai 5y agoNot sure. Having been a staff and principal engineer at a few places, my view is a staff engineer is primarily a reviewer and documenter: code reviews, writing and reviewing design documents, architectural and coding standards enforcer, etc. Mostly you are shepherding things along that are too technical to be dealt with by the engineering "people" management. Maybe a couple days a week you get to do some interesting coding.