I have seen this happen more and more in tech as well. Engineers join a company right out of college, are promoted to "senior" in a couple of years, and "staff" another two or three years after that. Now because everyone is staff you have to keep making up fancier titles – senior staff, principal engineer, technical lead, architect, senior architect, chief of staff, partner engineer, distinguished engineer, technical fellow...
I asked a higher up why this was the case, and the response was simply that people quit if they aren't promoted quick enough. Titles are free, and smaller companies have zero problems handing them out like candy to keep people happy.
I asked a higher up why this was the case, and the response was simply that people quit if they aren't promoted quick enough. Titles are free, and smaller companies have zero problems handing them out like candy to keep people happy.