I find it silly how he was only offered a junior developer role, but then again if it was me I'd probably tell the recruiter that I don't care about my job titl

I find it silly how he was only offered a junior developer role, but then again if it was me I'd probably tell the recruiter that I don't care about my job title, if I have a certain set of skills and experience I just want to get at a minimum the market value compensation for it, so as long as that is the case they can knock themselves out with silly job titles. If they can't pay what I'm worth then I wouldn't take the job even if my title was CTO.