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I don't really care about promotions. I care about my comp steadily increasing. In fact, I prefer getting a raise without being promoted.

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I guess it varies from person to person. But in general, comp is a "secret", but a job title is very public.

I'm a 20 year long career IC in some southern European country with salaries for that kind of worker are not that great. But I work for a London-based company and my salary is great even by London standards (but still low for US standards, or at least SF standards). To my contacts in LinkedIn I'm a failure, I'm sure. They all have fancy titles by now. It kind of bothers me even if I know I make more than most of them.

Titles mean nothing. On LinkedIn everyone is a director of some sort. It's all nonsense.

My former employer (not tech) was notorious for “under titling” roles compared to other companies.

What they called a senior manager would be a Director in another company.

I checked LinkedIn and they retitled everyone.

Now Directors are Senior Executive Directors and so on.

But otherwise the org chart was the same.

Ridiculous.

same.

m1 here, previously on track to m2, but I'm not bothered by this.

With ae + stock appreciation I'm getting m2+ pay so can't really complain.

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