L6. I've just seen the pattern of a high performing engineer running a team of ten junior engineers. No more high experienced candidates needed over that one. T

L6. I've just seen the pattern of a high performing engineer running a team of ten junior engineers. No more high experienced candidates needed over that one. This is on high TPS distributed systems. I've also seen two years of experience candidates writing code as good as anyone else. Domain specific for sure, took them two years on the team to get there. I've also spoken with many prinicpal engineers and think they provided no extra value over many other engineers. Its a level to aspire to, but most are just corporate strivers, many many people under them could replace them. These are on critical services.