> Others have told me the fastest way to get a senior title is a failing organisation, where senior people keep leaving. I actually thought about doing this ea

> Others have told me the fastest way to get a senior title is a failing organisation, where senior people keep leaving. I actually thought about doing this early in my career and know folks who intentionally did this to cut a few years off their path to being able to (ethically, without lying) put "Senior" on their resume. It works, and surprisingly well, however if you are considering this I would also suggest you do it in a market/business area that you don't particularly care about. I've been in more than one interview where a senior executive who was very tied in on the business side (knew all the big players, had the cell phone numbers for all the major company's CEOs, etc) immediately saw this on someone's resume and raised it as a red flag. The odds of that happening are honestly pretty slim, but it's something to consider.