[arielweisberg]

Wait till they end up as staff or principal. Along with bad management they hollow out several hundred person orgs.

[heywhatupboys]

all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless.

It is a game, where workers strife to be granted higher and higher titles, just because their peers and the industry does.

There is no inherit requirements, I can start a company today and call everyone super duper staff engineer

[robertlagrant]

They're not meaningless. Someone can get a line management role and be terrible technically. In fact that's a good thing to do with someone who's not good technically.

[TuringNYC]

"Distinguished Senior Staff Engineer"

[dbalatero]

It's meaningful insofar as you might want to continue to receive raises etc as your experience level goes up.