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> I told him we should put a reasonably senior job title on my business card so I could get meetings, so we did. I wasn’t really operating like a true Director-
by bsg75 14y ago
> I told him we should put a reasonably senior job title on my business card so I could get meetings, so we did. I wasn’t really operating like a true Director-level person until probably the last year I was there.
Its an interesting trend in tech where titles don't communicate actual experience.
Directors without anyone reporting to them, 10 person companies with 3-4 C-level executives, software / network "engineers". In some cases its "we can't pay you enough for the hours you will put in, so here is a fancy title".
- dmor 14y agoI think it is less a trend and more a fact that in early stage companies titles don't mean much, even CEO doesn't mean much in the earliest days. I joined Twilio as the first non-founder so basically employee #4 and at that time we had no idea what to call me. To be clear, I built a team that was 18 people when departed and hired another dozen people who ended up in various other roles (support, ops, product, etc) so while the title was undeserved in the beginning it was an understatement in the end.
- gaius 14y agoIt's common in finance too. You can walk into some banks where everyone is a Vice President, even the receptionists and secretaries. In the tech world, I've lost count of the number of 22-year-old "Senior Software Engineer" types I've met. I feel like shaking these guys and asking them, what job title do you expect in 10 years, if you stay in engineering? 20 years?