Like you say, there is no consensus. You just have to ask at each company what the titles mean to them. One way to ask is by percentage time spent coding vs m

Like you say, there is no consensus. You just have to ask at each company what the titles mean to them. One way to ask is by percentage time spent coding vs managing. There's a small leaning of VP Eng towards more-managing rather than more-coding, but I've been the VP Eng who was 80% coding / 20% managing.