My boss and I have this week literally been talking about how there has been so much title inflation that job title is meaningless now. “Senior” means 3 years o

My boss and I have this week literally been talking about how there has been so much title inflation that job title is meaningless now. “Senior” means 3 years of experience and is asking for salary far beyond many peoples deliverable value which makes it hard to justify hiring people like that that need a lot of development and growth still. The thing is that while some people who have three-five years experience are really good, they’re at the right hand side distribution on the bell curve. I’ve interviewed people who tell me they’re experts in X but can’t tell me common tooling, how they might debug poorly performing code, etc. etc. I don’t think this is sustainable personally, when you look at what “senior” is in other industries (like engineering) people are expected to be much more competent relative to their peers before they get such a title.