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Wait till they end up as staff or principal. Along with bad management they hollow out several hundred person orgs.

• heywhatupboys 3y ago
  all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless. It is a game, where workers strife to be granted higher and higher titles, just because their peers and the industry does. There is no inherit requirements, I can start a company today and call everyone super duper staff engineer
  • TuringNYC 3y ago
    "Distinguished Senior Staff Engineer"
  • robertlagrant 3y ago
    They're not meaningless. Someone can get a line management role and be terrible technically. In fact that's a good thing to do with someone who's not good technically.
    • heywhatupboys 3y ago
      > all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless.
  • dbalatero 3y ago
    It's meaningful insofar as you might want to continue to receive raises etc as your experience level goes up.
    • heywhatupboys 3y ago
      But that is absurd! The titles are arbitrarily given