I think these are weird things listed, does anyone actually believe that? "As a senior, I'll get to play with the latest tech and build amazing projects", "Onc

I think these are weird things listed, does anyone actually believe that? "As a senior, I'll get to play with the latest tech and build amazing projects", "Once I become a senior, I will have more time to relax", etc, I'm pretty sure I've never met anyone who believed that. I usually go by a very simple definition of seniority that applies broadly. What is the size of a piece that you can give to a person, and be sure it's taken care of? With appropriate support/resources, including more junior teammates on higher levels. As in, they own it, drive it, make sure it's aligned with the next higher level, deal with whatever integration is necessary with other pieces of the same size (i.e. how does this feature/service/platform/org work with other features/services/platforms/orgs). And you don't have to micromanage them. Specific level names depend on a company, but if someone can deliver a small feature, they are SDE I, or junior or whatever. If someone can deliver/own a reasonable-sized service or a large E2E customer-facing feature, they are a senior. If someone can deliver/own key customer-facing/financial metrics, a large cross-team initiative or basically a set of services / stack, they are staff or principal or whatever. If someone can own an entire org or a company maybe they are a TD/CIO :)