My last job before retiring last year there were virtually zero promotions in the greater department during my nearly six years there, besides a manager and a d

My last job before retiring last year there were virtually zero promotions in the greater department during my nearly six years there, besides a manager and a director who got multiple promotions. I had the same title (lead) I started with, yet my team and the greater department had high visibility in the (not FAANG but similar sized) company and was tasked with complex projects that affected company revenue. Other than one person made architect, the highest title any programmer had was lead despite there being several dozen employee programmers and nearly 100 contractors. The best improvement in status was a few contractors being offered employee. So while the work might meet the definition of whatever staff is (one of my responsibilities was being in charge of code that made 9 figures a year), and there being 3 levels of programmer titles above lead, no one ever was promoted any higher. Sometimes the work and the title do not match, if the company or department is uninterested in rewarding people with fancier titles. But I knew another org far removed from ours where the manager was a senior director and all of his (half dozen) team had the top programmer titles, yet did not do anything different than we did, and none of it was revenue related.