Re:Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
by mekaron on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:20AM
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> How is he going to get the next one?
By delivering, or helping the team deliver, outsized returns on engineering hours invested.
If a design is bloated, a good principal engineer should point out gaps, help simplify the solution and enable the team to deliver faster. That definitely gets noticed.
By delivering, or helping the team deliver, outsized returns on engineering hours invested.
If a design is bloated, a good principal engineer should point out gaps, help simplify the solution and enable the team to deliver faster. That definitely gets noticed.