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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.

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

"Distinguished Senior Staff Engineer"

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

But that is absurd! The titles are arbitrarily given