There was massive inflation with job titles. When I started, we had three levels: junior, medior and senior. Anything else was just vanity. But now nobody hires

There was massive inflation with job titles. When I started, we had three levels: junior, medior and senior. Anything else was just vanity. But now nobody hires medior or below anymore, so senior is the new entry level, followed by principal engineer, and "distinguished fellow engineer" is proposed as the real new senior title.