I've seen people call themselves "senior" after 3 years on the job, other become CTOs in the same time, and others still have a senior title after 20(!) years in the industry yet have a fuckton of technical experience.

I've heard that they are all just titles and opinions from "if you don't have the technical skill you can't call yourself a senior", to "senior and staff are just a feeling, principal is the actual senior" and "staff? above senior? we call that manager".

What's your story? Is there a ladder? Do you feel like you belong on it? Where are you on it? Does it make sense? Did you see major bumps in salary? Did titles count at all?

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    That's an interesting career, thanks for sharing. Another confirmation that titles really don't mean much in tech. Now I'm actually curious where titles do mean something. I imagine in a science career and other engineering fields maybe? Can't just invent new ways to do things there as you're bound to the real world.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I once worked with someone with the title Vice President of Awesome. We worked for a consultancy where you could just pick your own title.