[lifehacked]

That guy should have left, but he probably negotiated a salary commensurate with his true experience, with people who just love to code, I can imagine they would not care about the title, the real win is in the bank account. Call me a code janitor if you want as long as I get my 120k 4 weeks of vacation and my co workers are not total wads, I'd be fine.

[AdmiralAsshat]

I'd love to tell you that he did, but no: he was a Steve Wozniak type--incredibly talented but too laid back and passive to know how to fight for himself. He passed away about a year ago from brain cancer and I found out his actual salary from his wife (peanuts, basically). That combination of crappy job title and egregious underpay continued to hamper him when he looked for other work, because the assumption from prospective interviewers was, "You've worked there for 10 years and are still a JUNIOR dev? You must be terrible."