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the principal engineer's role would be to review designs to reduce complexity

Two questions:

1) How did this principal engineer get this title?

2) How is he going to get the next one?

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.

1) not by keeping things simple I think. (sarcasm yes, but also mostly true)

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