I can attest to this; though I've worked almost exclusively at small companies with only a fleeting amount of time spent at a handful of megacorps. I've gone f

I can attest to this; though I've worked almost exclusively at small companies with only a fleeting amount of time spent at a handful of megacorps. I've gone from intern, to junior, to mid-level, to lead, to senior, to "engineer" to senior, where I stayed for some time, to self-assigned title "grand poobah of slinging bits at switches." As can be guessed, I've come to the conclusion that at small companies titles simply don't matter much. As an aside, at one of the megacorps it looked as though my title ceiling would likely be "Architect" as very few programmers appeared to make the lateral switch into management, even with skills upgrading training on their own time.