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Senior Principal Engineer Reviews
What is it like working as a Senior Principal Engineer?
February 2019
Career Expandion.
Senior Principal Engineer in Chandler:
Pros: Management support is great and lots of opportunities for advancement in the current market.
Cons: Pay appears to be low for they average. Years of experience can be rewarded through promotions and getting new responsibilities. However pay to stay is not competitive.
January 2019
Have the ownership of my product development.
Senior Principal Engineer in Vienna:
Pros: Trustable culture
Cons: Health insurance
January 2019
Senior Principal Engineer:
Hughes is a great place to work, the culture of Hughes is very tolerant and comfortable. Company cares employees, have been here for a long time, still love it. The reason I don’t give it a 5 star is that since Echostar took over, the benefit ( health insurance) has downgraded so much, which actually forced some great coworkers left.
November 2018
It is fine.
Senior Principal Engineer in San Diego:
Pros: Weather conditions and quality of life.
Cons: Prices grow rapidly.
March 2018
The commute is worth the effort.
Senior Principal Engineer in Philadelphia:
Pros: Cultural and professional opportunities
Cons: The commute
July 2017
Expensive.
Senior Principal Engineer in Seattle:
Pros: The energy and like-minded people.
Cons: The expenses, the cost, the expense to income ratio.
June 2016
Challenging job; company very tightly controlled.
Senior Principal Engineer:
Pros: Challenging work.
Many very sharp colleagues to work with.
Cons: Oracle is stingy about supplying employees the tools they need to do their job. For example, even for *engineers*, it only provides mid-range Windows laptops, whereas in our part of the company we need Unix-based, higher-end computers. Many of us end up spending $2500 out of our own pockets to supply the "tools" we need to do our jobs.
The other thing I dislike is that the company operates very "top-down" -- decisions are made on top, pushed down, and must be accepted without question. No reasons are given for the decisions, and no appeals are tolerated. There is no transparency; it feels like upper management is saying "we're the parents and you are the children, *that's* why; we don't need to explain our decisions". I'd expect that in the military, but not in a corporation.
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