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Principal means above staff or at the very least above senior in every company I’ve ever encountered it. Senior may have diluted to just mean “non-junior emplo
by sarchertech 3y ago
Principal means above staff or at the very least above senior in every company I’ve ever encountered it.
Senior may have diluted to just mean “non-junior employee”, but I’ve never heard someone using principal for that.
- WWLink 3y agoWord. Where I work that's 15-20+ years experience and often means "would become a director if there was an opening and they wanted the job"
- nostrademons 3y agoIt's usually above senior but it can be below staff at equivalent companies. Check out levels.fyi for salary bands. Principal at Microsoft is between senior & staff at Google. Principal at Amazon is directly above senior, but is generally higher than staff at Google. Principal at Roblox is about the same as Microsoft.
- sarchertech 3y agoRight that's what I meant by "at the very least above senior". Within a given company principal is generally always higher than staff, but for companies that don't have staff, principal is generally always higher than senior. My point was that I've never seen principal used to mean "non-junior employee" in the way that senior occasionally is.