How are Amazon Principal Engineers regarded outside of Amazon?
Sep 11, 2020
PEs are big deal inside Amazon and part of top 2% talent in the company.
1. But how are they regarded outside? Do other companies value them?
2. What are the typical roles Amazon PEs pickup when they leave?
3. Any other benefits?
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An SDE3 will be immensely more valuable to an SDE1/2 than a PE because their scope is expected to be less. Someone who has largescale org impact is unlikely to be overly beneficial to someone at an SDE1/2 level.
And the scope of problems a PE deals with changes from purely technical/implementation to a hybrid technical/organizational/strategic mix.
And most of the PEs I have interacted with are super awesome. Some are really top notch. Not sure if that is because of the CDO/eCF org. Those guys have some deep experience.
If you compare PoA talks from a decade ago vs. recent ones, there's a noticeable difference.
About hiring bar, often external PEs looks so disconnected from Amazon tech and becomes ineffective when hired. But is it same for internally grown PEs as well?