Comment by joncp

5 years ago

That's true unless you get acquired. At that point, your title is what your new overlords will use to determine your role, salary, and even whether to lay you off.

I mistakenly asked to be called the "Staff Engineer" as employee #1, I think I'm going to correct to "Principal Engineer" as soon as I can.

I've seen that happen to an excellent domain expert at a company during radical downsizing. Though TBF, that round saw fat, muscle, sinew, and bone cut.

To say nothing of a lot of brain.