By delivering, or helping the team deliver, outsized returns on engineering hours invested.
If a design is bloated, a good principal engineer should point out gaps, help simplify the solution and enable the team to deliver faster. That definitely gets noticed.
Thats missing the point of the poster. Its not about self destructive behaviour. You're not going to make it to month 48 by running yourself into the ground.
It just means results are not instant.
Maybe we should all be focused more on delivering actual value, instead of obsessing over what other people think on the internet..
By delivering, or helping the team deliver, outsized returns on engineering hours invested.
If a design is bloated, a good principal engineer should point out gaps, help simplify the solution and enable the team to deliver faster. That definitely gets noticed.