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> you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor </snip> I am in your age demogr

> you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor </snip> I am in your age demographic. My current title is simply ‘Engineer’ without modifiers, but in the business hierarchy I am on the same line as VPs, so I interact with them as peers; and they are. The Directors, Managers, etc. that report up to my peers do not take orders from me, but I can override their decisions on concrete technical matters. What I’ve found is that in a non-startup (ie corporate) environment your row in the org chart determines your level of agency, not the title as it appears in your HR file.

ThalesX 5y ago
For all my engineering experience, apart from CTO and Freelancer, I also have listed 'Engineer'. I've been a senior engineer for some years now and still refuse to align with whatever each company chooses to name me. I worked in a body-shop as a junior, but they sold me as a senior to the client, so I got lucky early on to realize this is just smoke and mirrors. I haven't really had any problems with it and when people ask during interviews, I usually tell them it's up to them to gauge my seniority, I have no idea.