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dbsmasher corner
Personal blog · blog.dbsmasher.comprogrammingcareer
dbsmasher corner is a personal blog at blog.dbsmasher.com about programming and career. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “On Being a Principal Engineer”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2019 post on the principal engineer role, which defines the role and is used as a reference for career paths and the 'staff engineer' title.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts, stories and ideas
Most-linked posts?
- On Being a Principal Engineer7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-01-29
- Not My Job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I read this article a few months ago about being a Principal Engineer, https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-e... , and ever since it’s been my designated career path / plan. I am in the lucky position of working in a small-but-growing team of developers, so I get to choose my career advancement and have support to follow this road. I think a principal engineer is the right mix of (still) develo…
Comment linking /2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html
on “Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)”Submitted On Being a Principal Engineer as a story · 893 points
HN discussionHere is a related blog post from last week that defines the "Principal engineer" / "Staff engineer" role: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-e... Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19128489
Comment linking /2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html
on “The Principal Developer”Submitted Not My Job as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThere was a very good blog post about this by Silvia Botros, though she uses "principal engineer" as the label: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-e...
Comment linking /2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html
on “Seniority in Software Engineering”Submitted Not My Job as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being a Principal Engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiring (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Keep Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being a Principal Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being a Principal Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High performance MySQL book announcement (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being a Principal Engineer as a story · 1 points
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