[HN Gopher] Staff Engineer vs. Engineering Manager
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       Staff Engineer vs. Engineering Manager
        
       Author : kiyanwang
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-12-01 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
       | Staff Engineer is a bullshit title created because engineers do
       | not want to be managers and there is no other way to promote
       | them. If companies had a flat structure like Valve, such BS would
       | not be around.
        
         | nine_zeros wrote:
         | This is right. Staff is also another title where EMs abscond
         | from any engineering duty. They offload all engineering to
         | staff engineer while themselves playing empire-building and
         | performance review games.
         | 
         | As a result, the management ladder in tech companies become
         | completely detached from what the company is producing and how
         | to bring benefit to customers.
        
         | chgs wrote:
         | We had
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         | Junior x
         | 
         | (Vanilla) x
         | 
         | Senior x
         | 
         | Principal x
         | 
         | We now have added
         | 
         | Senior principal x
        
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