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Your growth is attractive! For the first 5years, you worked as a Software Engineer. Assuming a good track record, you could have been a Senior or Staff engineer

Your growth is attractive! For the first 5years, you worked as a Software Engineer. Assuming a good track record, you could have been a Senior or Staff engineer within that time frame. Then, how did you transition to VP within the next 5?

quantumofalpha 5y ago
Titles don't mean much without knowing the type of company that assigned them. Every second guy is a VP at a bank - it means merely something like 'senior SWE' in banking, often you wouldn't even have any reports. 5yoe is reasonable time to reach it. Another example - anyone can be a CEO of own company. But once you get acquihired by FAANG suddenly you're just a PM for your startup's team.
- jsjsbdkj 5y ago
  This. I currently work with a CTO whc has less experience than me, because he founded the company, he's CTO by default.
- itsmefaz 5y ago
  Ok. If he was in FAANG companies the author would be effectively around Staff or Senior engineer caliber.
digianarchist 5y ago
It's a 15 person company I'm surprised they have VP titles.
- exdsq 5y ago
  A start-up I left a few years back had 4 employees - CEO, CTO, Principle Engineer, and me (bog-standard dev). People like fancy titles :)
- liketochill 5y ago
  They matter when the company gets bought and all of the sudden you are a VP at a public ally traded company worth billions