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Principal Software Engineer Reviews
What is it like working as a Principal Software Engineer?
April 2016
Stay away.
Principal Software Engineer:
Pros: Flexible hours.
Telecommuting.
Challenging work.
Cons: Highly autocratic, top-down management.
Extremely bureaucratic.
Extremely cumbersome development processes.
Constant change in priorities.
November 2015
Principal Software Engineer:
Pros: Work on challenging projects that change the world.
Cons: Managing expectations can be difficult.
November 2015
Very challenging.
Principal Software Engineer:
Pros: Lots of responsibility, lots of challenges.
Cons: Lots of stress, have to argue with plenty of people.
October 2015
Work flexibility.
Principal Software Engineer:
Pros: Work flexibility.
Cons: Compensation.
June 2015
Learn to be a team player and also a leader at the same time.
Principal Software Engineer:
Learn to be a team player and also a leader at the same time.
November 2014
Be ambitious.
Principal Software Engineer:
Have a career path and work to achieve it.
September 2014
How Is As Important As What You Do.
Principal Software Engineer:
Success at Intuit requires senior technologists to have strong soft skills, and how you do your job is just as important as what you accomplish.
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