> Hierarchical titles are for engineers that hide their mediocrity behind HR appointed titles. Disagree. The motivation is more around the financial benefits t

> Hierarchical titles are for engineers that hide their mediocrity behind HR appointed titles. Disagree. The motivation is more around the financial benefits that come from it. Which, honestly, I wouldn’t blame anyone for wanting, considering the CoL in most major US metros. I do think its worth attempting to create a technical career path for engineers though. The current iteration may not be perfect, but its an improvement over the previous thing, which was that you had to move into managerial positions to make “career progress”. In fact one of the criticisms I have of the upper levels of this rat race is that it devolves into more managerial work anyways, reducing the amount of time engineers spend in the trenches (so to speak) contributing to the decline of their skills.