I had the inverse experience: I worked for a startup that gave literally everyone in the engineering department the same title of “Senior Software Engineer” in

I had the inverse experience: I worked for a startup that gave literally everyone in the engineering department the same title of “Senior Software Engineer” in the HR system because they had one boilerplate offer letter used for everyone. I was a manager-of-managers, but officially I was a “senior software engineer”. Burned me badly on a couple reference checks, until I specifically started explaining the situation during interviews.