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Principal at Amazon is the first level above senior software engineer, so closer to staff than principal at Google/Facebook. It isn't a particularly uncommon level to reach at Facebook or Google.
Principals at Amazon are 1.8% of the SDE population, so no, the comparison to "Staff" engineer is unfounded.
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This isn't specifically the job of the architect. Any idiot can explain how the tool they built works. So the software engineer or the product manager can do this as well. Explaining how something works is not a magical skill reserved for software architects. What is a skill reserved for architects? If you find yourself spending 100% of your time creating a powerpoint to explain things in a way that makes you sound s…
The architect is the only idiot, who knows the tool as a whole and, more importantly, its role in the bigger world. Other idiots know only how bits are fiddled in a small corner of the tool on which they worked during their probation, they don't know the big picture, at all. In any case documentation in big companies today is outsourced to people with zero programming experience, and they obviously can generate only…
Also the architect is the only person who did not write a line of code yet understands the tool better than engineers who work, code and solve problems across the entire stack.
That’s not only arrogant. It’s delusional.
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The architect is the only idiot, who knows the tool as a whole and, more importantly, its role in the bigger world. Other idiots know only how bits are fiddled in a small corner of the tool on which they worked during their probation, they don't know the big picture, at all. In any case documentation in big companies today is outsourced to people with zero programming experience, and they obviously can generate only…
So literally you’re saying the architect is the only person who can write good documentation. Also the architect is the only person who did not write a line of code yet understands the tool better than engineers who work, code and solve problems across the entire stack. That’s not only arrogant. It’s delusional.