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The finance sector started this decades ago. A Vice President is just a spreadsheet slinger and there are at least five different kinds of Director.
by civilized 4y ago
The finance sector started this decades ago. A Vice President is just a spreadsheet slinger and there are at least five different kinds of Director.
- pestatije 4y agoI saw this too...i wondered how could a single bank have so many VP's
- MagnumOpus 4y agoBut it now is an established convention. When you hear "VP at a bank", for the last 50 years it has been common knowledge that it is an individual contributor with 4-8ish years of experience, and when you hear "Managing Director", you translate it to "10yr+ experience and some people under him". Whereas in software, you don't really know how much authority a "senior architect" or "engineering fellow" or "principal staff developer" really has...
- mejutoco 4y agotbh, there are fewer banks. If you limit the software titles to FAANG you get a pretty good idea of what they mean too.
- notahacker 4y agoAnd the startup scene does it far more aggressively than the corporate sector, where founders dish out C level titles to their interns. My favourite 'Director' I've encountered so far was an Associate Director who was a fresh graduate doing LinkedIn outreach for an SME.