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a mid 20s person with "director" in their title sounds good on paper but there is no credible replacement for experience.
by eldaisfish 1y ago
a mid 20s person with "director" in their title sounds good on paper but there is no credible replacement for experience.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoYeah, I'm assuming they signed onto a startup with a bad case of title inflation.
- chaosharmonic 1y agoCan confirm, I myself was a one person support desk (for a restaurant chain) and just never officially had a title. The internal moniker of "the IT guru" was fine for an email signature, but certainly not for a resume. (I've since made other retroactive edits to that, both for something more sensible and to better represent years of scope creep.)
- anon7000 1y agoStartups are weird though, new college grads can be (inexperienced) CTOs & CEOs if they start a company together
- jvanderbot 1y agoI have a former coworker in their early 20s who left a startup as Senior (they were 1 year out from graduating) to become a "Director" at another startup. Their first job was implementing the control law for the robot's wheels. In this case (and perhaps many others), "Director" just meant "Only person we have".
- Trixter 1y agoIt can also mean that on the way down. At a private unix software company in 1994, the rise of Linux destroying our business led to firing nearly everyone in support except the cheapest person (me). As I was the only person left in tech support, I became Director of Tech Support by default.
- AbstractH24 1y agoI actually told a startup o joined a few years back that was 5 people that I wanted a more junior title. Because cod it didn’t make it off the ground I didn’t want folks rejecting me as overqualified for roles I was well suited for and under-skilled for ones say my title Turned out the company didn’t make it and the title in my resume I one I made up anyway.