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We talk about what's the hardest promotion at Amazon and I had made the argument that it was senior engineer to principal. I will say that at Amazon there is gigantic demand for principal engineers and so there are roles that have been open for years. I think something on the order of like 13 months or 17 months or something like that to get an external hire to join as a principal engineer. But that metric is only calculated when the role is filled. And so probably there are hundreds of principal engineer openings at Amazon and there are thousands of senior engineers. And so there's this tension and I don't think you see that at the lower levels. I don't think that that's happening at senior or mid or junior. And so that inongruity I think is super interesting.