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by sokoloff 1965 days ago
In a field where the spread of outcomes is as wide as software, it seems reasonable that the right tail of practitioners would be very impressive.

In practice, no company requires their equivalent of principal engineer to hit 100.00% of the defined marks, but rather a comfortable majority of them with no glaring weaknesses.

Principal engineer roles should be filled on ability and impact not seniority/experience.