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At this point I try to completely ignore job titles and judge people based on their actual experience and demonstrated capability.
If you believe titles equate some sort of seniority, like your ideas/solutions are better simply because of your title and lower titles get lower respect, then that's a giant red flag for me as in a "no hire". A Senior at a shop building web sites and apps for small/local businesses will not have the same experience as a Senior at a company scaling into millions of transactions per minute. There should be no disrespe…
1. The individual has an incomplete LinkedIn that is not representative of their experience.
2. The title doesn’t matter much at the company in any meaningful way beyond pay scale
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Another thing that bugs me is the blog postings describing career paths in what used to be called FAANG where job titles are weirdly specialized like the language used by sexual subcultures like BDSM and polyarmory. What?? Do you have a link to something like this? BDSM-references seem highly inappropriate in a work setting.
You know that Depeche Mode song Master and Servant that has the line "it's a lot like life?" Links would be really NSFW but if you really want to know I suggest you create an account on Fetlife though the way I see it, that site is what you'd get if Eternal September had an Eternal September and that had an Eternal September again.
If you believe titles equate some sort of seniority, like your ideas/solutions are better simply because of your title and lower titles get lower respect, then that's a giant red flag for me as in a "no hire". A Senior at a shop building web sites and apps for small/local businesses will not have the same experience as a Senior at a company scaling into millions of transactions per minute. There should be no disrespe…