[why5s]

From personal experience: no it is not. This mentality leads to nothing but frustration and burnout as upper management sends you to tackle your "staff"-project.

Titles are all based on organizational politics and the macroeconomics at the moment. Were you hired during the 2021-2022 hiring spree where companies would give anything to keep engineers from getting poached? You probably were hired at Staff. If not, then what were you doing? Lol these folks were the first ones laid off.

Personally, I received my highest raises in 2021 and 2022. Multiple salary (and equity) bumps; a title bump. Life was fucking good.

Nowadays, you can just be glad not to get laid off. Instead of the promotion they promised, you get a slap in the face and some chump change.

I know I sound jaded but the fact that there are MULTIPLE books on "Staff"-level engineering (all un-ironically written by managers and executives rather than ICs) is completely laughable.

/rant