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Queen of Swords
"The Staff Engineer"
Swords · Process & Decisions▲ Upright +2
The person in the room who sees through the politics to the actual technical problem. The Queen of Swords is the staff engineer whose code review comments are three sentences long and each one prevents a production incident. She does not care about your feelings about the architecture. She cares about whether it will work at 10x the current load. Listen to her.
▽ Reversed -1
Brilliance weaponized. The Queen of Swords reversed is the senior engineer whose feedback is technically correct and personally devastating. The code review that makes a junior developer consider a career change. Intelligence without empathy is just a more articulate way to destroy a team.