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It's important though if you don't want to stay at the current company forever. With the right title it's much easier to get a well paying job. Otherwise you'll
by dx034 3y ago
It's important though if you don't want to stay at the current company forever. With the right title it's much easier to get a well paying job. Otherwise you'll have to convince future employers why you didn't have that title despite your qualifications and work.
- int0x2e 3y agoI call this "resume engineering". Some years ago, I decided to pass on a very impressive position at one of the then-hottest tech unicorns. I kinda liked the people, thought the tech was cool, but didn't see any way for the company to succeed. As I thought, that company died, firing 100s of folks before the end. It's been a few years, but a former colleague who took that job, managed to land an impressive title at my previous employer, above my level at the time... I have since left that company (unrelated), moved to a startup, and couldn't be happier. My opinion is that titles don't matter. At all. Compensation does matter, but you have to also value your happiness and factor that as well.
- red-iron-pine 3y agotitles certainly matter and some fields have very specific definitions as to roles and levels of responsibility. medical workers come to mind.
- JohnFen 3y agoI have never once had a potential employer express any sort of interest in job titles. They want to know what you did in your job, how much responsibility you had, that sort of thing, and they know that job titles don't tell you that.