Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by gabereiser on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:20PM
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This is the way.
("Sr. Prompt Engineer", "Visual Strategist", "Director of Front of House") People want to have some leverage to get things they want done, done. Sys Admin -> DevOps (Cloud) Engineer. Things change. Adapt or die.
If you read IBM's coding standards from 1980 and compared them to Google's from 2000s and then to Today's AI journey, you would have complaints about each. Processes form from people. Change comes from people.
Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by superfrank on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:37PM
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Title inflation isn't specific to tech. Look at the banking industry, pretty much everyone is a VP or SVP of something.
Re:The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
by jdwithit on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:08PM
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Or sales. The startup I used to work at, absolutely everyone in sales had some kind of Director or higher title regardless of seniority or role. I guess the theory being you're more likely to take a call from the Senior Executive Director of Business Development (never mind that said Senior Executive Director is 23 years old and has zero decision making authority). I always wondered if people actually fell for this crap.
It's prolific because banking clients want to work with someone in a position of authority.
I remember when Systems Administrator was a noble and important profession full of smart, talented people. But a lot of people misunderstood it and made fun of it, so it became an unattractive title, and instead of changing the role, they just made up new titles. Now they're cool and in-demand, and still nobody understands what they do.