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Re:The scourge of job title inflation by kgeist on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:43AM (#33965264)
>the response was simply that people quit if they aren't promoted quick enough

Our company has grades instead: J0, J1, P1, S2 etc. So if someone is a junior, they can be "promoted" 2 times (J0 => J1 => J2) before becoming a "pro" (P1), and 2 more times before becoming a senior (P1 => P2 => S1). The official titles are still just "junior engineer", "senior engineer" etc.

As a consequence, since in other companies they often promote just "junior => senior", when we hire someone who was previously a "senior", they are often assigned a junior grade (for example, J2) which often demotivates people

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Re:The scourge of job title inflation by paxys on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:47AM (#33965291)
That's how Microsoft does it. Pay grades range from 59 (SDE) to 80+ (Technical Fellow), and your actual title only changes every 3-4 levels.
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Re:The scourge of job title inflation by emodendroket on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:48AM (#33965298)
I feel like this is easier to accept at Microsoft or another big name than some nobody.
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