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And even more harder is that within a company, those titles are vastly different depending on what team you get hired on to. You could be hired on at a senior level for a given team yet be considered a standard software developer or even associate on a different team.

Case in point, an engineer was hired on in my current company at a Senior role, being even considered for Principal and was subsequently moved to my team. They are now gauged at almost an Associate level when compared to the rest of the engineers on my team and their titles.