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Looking back at my career, I don't think this would have impacted me in any way. I've found titles to be meaningless this industry. They may hold some weight in
by johncessna 5y ago
Looking back at my career, I don't think this would have impacted me in any way. I've found titles to be meaningless this industry. They may hold some weight in FAANG companies only because folks know what an amazon L5, microsoft 62, google, facebook E4, etc. are. There's even a handy website [1] to compare them.
When you get out of FAANG, titles becomes even more irrelevant. What's a Programmer VI compared to a senior associate consultant?
I think this is part of the reason why we have the 'show me what you know' interviews. Degrees, Titles, past experience maybe get you in the door, but you still need to pass the tech interview for the role.
[1] https://www.levels.fyi https://www.levels.fyi
- joshstrange 5y agoTitles are stupid, I agree. I've had varying titles throughout my career and they've never meant anything, all I care about is the compensation, call me whatever you want. In larger companies I understand the reasoning behind them a little more but outside of FAANG they really don't matter. I've even worked at places that had SE 1, SE 2, Senior SE levels, the compensation has zero ties to those titles. I know for a fact there were SE2's that made a lot more than the seniors (and no, this wasn't just some overlap in compensation tiers, there were no compensation tiers, just made up titles).