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Titles are free, so there's not a huge downside. I worked at a mutual fund company which had dozens and dozens of vice presidents. The reason was vendors and

• pc86 10y ago
  The downsides are: 1. Director generally implies a manager of managers. If your title is "Director" and you're actually a team lead, it makes your company look like it doesn't know what it's doing. Specifically, the leadership. 2. If your resume goes from "Director" to "Developer" people are going to wonder what you did. It will cause people to take a second look at your resume in a negative way. 3. So at the end of that job, you've got someone who isn't qualified for a job with that title anywhere else and who will need to actively harm their career to take the jobs they are qualified for. I'm sure I've forgotten several, but they've built a $600M GIF search engine so what do I know.