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> If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed On the other hand, if you are the first (and
by azangru 4y ago
> If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed
On the other hand, if you are the first (and, therefore, the only?) 'principal engineer' in your company, how do you even know whether you have succeeded or not? :-)
- chasd00 4y agothe further up the org chart you go the less clear success becomes. Once you're doing things at a strategic level even the clearest signals trail your decisions by 6 months to a year at least. The stakes get high when you don't know if your decision is right or not until a year later and everyone is suffering with no way out because it turns out you were wrong.
- jameshart 4y agoYou simply reason from first principals