I will add my contextual industry experience. When I started out roughly 20yrs ago a "Senior" engineer started at 10yrs experience. Junior was < 5yrs. Intermedi

I will add my contextual industry experience. When I started out roughly 20yrs ago a "Senior" engineer started at 10yrs experience. Junior was < 5yrs. Intermediate between. One of the first steps to title inflation was people started to include internships and their time in college as "years of experience" . So this meant new grads could have 5 years experience in their minds. Part of this is fair because if the industry is going to start a 12 week boot camp person at 0, there should be _something_ for the 4 year bachelor.