When a senior engineer sits on that role for too many years, the promotion is honorific (and jumps in salary band and benefits), or its a way to reward a very v

When a senior engineer sits on that role for too many years, the promotion is honorific (and jumps in salary band and benefits), or its a way to reward a very valuable senior engineer before he hop to another job. At least that's what I've seen in large organisations where senior has actually become a mid level engineer. The tiers make me laugh sometimes, as the titled fellow, principal, distinguished, or evangelist are attributed to a few, sometimes even with the "senior" prefix added to those titles.