I've been in a multinational mobile gaming company. My title was "Senior Server Engineer". I worked with Principal Architects who couldn't code themselves out

I've been in a multinational mobile gaming company. My title was "Senior Server Engineer". I worked with Principal Architects who couldn't code themselves out of a wet paper bag. I had (at the time) 20 years of experience in the field. Said Principal had around 5-6. But they were from a country where titles are highly valued, so they used up the "promotion budget" - I didn't get a fancy title (and tbh didn't want one).