[BoxFour]

Big tech companies are also notorious for down-leveling if you’re not coming from another big company, so it might not actually be that good of a move.

[mgaunard]

Well of course, if you were CTO of a company of 10, you can't expect to be hired as CTO of Google.

[BoxFour]

My first manager at a big tech co was the CTO of a 500 person company. He was down-leveled to being a first-level manager.

[dylan604]

This is why titles on biz cards are funny.

[motbus3]

Once a person where I was tech lead asked to leave because he told me his salary wasn't enough.

I didn't know numbers, but I came to know that he was earning X and as I asked the company for him to stay he got at least 1.7X

Then I learned how much X was and I got said with my own salary

After a while, I've got a new job and they offered 1.7X for me even after I received a 1.5X increase.

First I was happy that they were at least trying to hold me, but then I realized that my base salary was probably just too low LOL