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Why and How to be a big-tech Principal Engineer

The Deliberate Engineer 66,926 3 years ago
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Principal Engineers are high-level software engineers who help deliver complex, multi-team projects. Learn what they do at companies like Amazon and Microsoft, and how to become one! This is based on my 30 years of software engineering experience, 15 years as a principal engineer! Table of Contents: 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - Disclaimer 01:15 - Job Titles at Microsoft, Google, Amazon 01:53 - Principal Engineer Abilities 05:30 - How to progress from Senior to Principal 07:02 - Two principal-level projects 09:18 - Collaboration and Expertise 10:40 - Why be a principal engineer? 11:52 - In summary

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