344 Principal Software Engineer Reviews

"I love the ability to design and develop products which enterprises use. Feels as I am contributing something to the world. I find sometimes we end up being involved with solving some difficult problems, which make this job very challenging and interesting."

"As a principe engineer, I had two choices for carrier advancement, which is technical direction or senior management direction. If you decide to go to a technical side, you've run into getting smaller window for your carrier advancement.Sometimes, you ended up with people management or project management, which is not attractive to me."

"Yes. It is good to be working in computing."

"I love working with new technologies and building products. What I hate is working with new technologies, it is difficult to judge the amount of time to implement."

"I love to be more technical with the passage of time. I hate to miss even a single piece of information related to my field."

"I like having the ability to solve problems that have some real world importance. I enjoy designing and developing and coming up with robust, reliable solutions that perform above people's expectations."

"As an embedded software engineer I enjoy both the hardware and software challenges associated with developing systems from requirements analysis to product introduction. Each phase brings unique challenges which require different skill sets. I have no dislikes for the position."

"I love the job -- Principal Software Engineer."

"I really love this work, and especially in a company that is willing to listen to good ideas."

"Love making things work, creativity, solving problems that impact real life.Hate process-as-king environments, cubicles, sitting-ism, meetings, nay-sayers."

"I love to work there due to the creative research and development."

"The ability to interface with customers and lead individuals."

"What I love is being able to talk to the customer to get the requirements and in some cases make positive suggestions on how best to perform the task at hand. So you get to see the project from start to finish. The only down side is dealing with different documentation standards for various clients."

"I love learning new technologies, how they work in isolation as well as in a cross-language system. Software is like solving intricate and challenging puzzles as well as being creative and fun. How work gets done has it's own pluses and minuses. I've been challenged with various trends based on popularity as well as effectiveness. I find wearing multiple functional role hats, from technical writer/producer to release engineer frustrating while trying to focus on my dev & architectural skills."