> Can't quite figure out when this shift started, but have definitely noticed title inflation as a regular thing over the last 10-15 years. I'll bet it can be

> Can't quite figure out when this shift started, but have definitely noticed title inflation as a regular thing over the last 10-15 years. I'll bet it can be tracked down by looking at job-hopping. That's how it happened to me in the early 2010s: I was never told I was promoted to senior developer, one day I was just invited to a meeting for all our senior developers to get opinions on something. I hadn't noticed before, but during the meeting I realized I technically was in the older half of all the devs in the office (in terms of time at the company, not age), just due to all the hiring that had been done in the previous year or two.