Tsunami of Layoffs w.r.t Principal Engineers, Directors, Senior Managers, Managers is on the way
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How the heck did Principals become a target when there is this massive pile of SD’s and VP’s (reporting to each other often in some sort of business in---t setup).
Like… your car is on fire and someone stops by to mention that you have flat tire. Ummm thanks genius? Talk about the forest for the trees or whatever the heck.
Principals are also not responsible or the id--tic directives or lack of directives on work.
Start at the top to fix this mess, work your way down.
Some dude dirs literally do admin work which does not even match the level of what the great admin assists do. Why waste big $ on these. SMH.
@fs scott? The guy who worked for databricks and coauthored a book … all on Nike’s dime?
1500? From where?
@e1 specially in DAI team all principals are literally junior engineers. most if not all are on H1B too.
@av lies, they can have cursor explain it to do with small words
@e1 it should be. Pretty much all the principals su-k a-s now that Scott and Keith are gone. I'll be bold an say it, they ALL su-k a-s now.
Makes sense. Let's have a bunch of sde 1-2 reporting to VPs by your logic.
especially my favorite tech mod PEs ;)
I worked under a Principal at Nike who was top 3 smartest people I've ever met in my life.
So while I understand that situationally and by team you may have different experiences especially with the weird "hire and promote your friends" dance that has happened, it's not strictly a good label for "Principals are bad".
Every non-essential domain/capability is under scrutiny and major impact is expected. And people will rotate to different domains to fill gaps
I doubt it
I fu--ing pray they start cutting PEs, all they do is waste time complaining that they can't read pull requests that lower band engineers are perfectly capable of parsing
God let this be true
This is hilarious because it’s true
@op i am also thinking if converse can work without PE's why not Nike Digital
Can you share the week too?
LIKE!
The PE's would be very upset about this post if they could read
1000+
All teams?
@a6+1 wait and see...@a3+ what the fu-k...principal engineers are there only to ask for do the needfuls
Yeah this feels like wishful thinking on an individual contributors part.
Course if you had said Sr. dirs and VP’s I would have cheered but also shook my head and said “well that’s never gonna happen”.
Oh no who then will tell the engineers to do the needful /s