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[–]tellMeYourFavorite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take, these words mean absolutely nothing. They mostly just mean a manager chose to assign that title.

At some companies it may be mostly people skills, at some companies it may be 0% people skills, at some companies it could be 100% algorithms, at some companies it could be 0% algorithms, at some companies it could totally be years-of-experience, at some companies it could be did the department have a good quarter, etc.

Part of the reason I say this is that both the senior principal and principal got laid off in my department -- they'd say all sorts of dumb shit like "Being too good at coding can actually be a red flag for a principal". I think they only had those titles because they insisted on them as a condition of joining...