I am being approached by a Splunk recruiter, but I dont know anybody working in Splunk, hence turning to you folks. How is the engineering org, especially the core services team and typical TC for (possibly) a principal engineer role ? How about interview difficulty ? Is principal engineer considered a pretty senior role or just a fancy name for a non-fresh grad ? What is the typical % of principal engineers in a team/org ? A cursory search in LinkedIn turned up tons of Principal software engineers in Splunk. What is the career path upwards of Principal engineer ? Kindly excuse the tons of questions. Dont have too many data points to go by. Appreciate all your inputs !
I am also interested in knowing.
Their vancouver (Canada) comp was above market level there when I got an offer from them. 10% relocation and 10% bonus too
I've only met a handful of people from there, but they all seemed to like it
Principal there is like google T5. You should look at 350k+ TC for this level.
Thanks. Is Google T5 formally called "Senior Staff" ? I seemed to see far too many Principal engineers at Splunk on LinkedIn.
No T5 is senior at Google. But google tends to downgrade levels from other companies. I would say roughly 7-10 yoe gets you principal at splunk.
It’s a great data science product. Lucky you!
Product being good doesnt necessarily translate to a good engineering team though. Anyways, its not like I have an offer.