[zuhayeer]

https://levels.fyi is a good resource to understand where you stand laterally across many companies. Title inflation definitely skews a lot of this. Leveling nomenclature like “principal” and “staff” don’t necessarily correlate across other companies (for example, a senior engineer at Google could come in as a staff engineer or even higher at LinkedIn).

But even outside of titles, it’s difficult to become a new player and start from scratch on learning the inner workings of a company. I think the first step is establishing the confidence to make that move if it is going to be better for your career overall.

[ajdlinux]

It's very confusing reading tech career advice when you come from a company where "staff engineer" is one level above incoming grads and "senior engineer" takes 10 years...

[8note]

that doesn't answer whether he'd be able to work the same role at a different company, regardless of name.