[Someone1234]

True, but that is also telling you something useful about the company.

I'm not defending it, I'm pointing out, that when a company tells you this is how they want to be seen by potentially new recruits then listen to them.

It is a red flag for one of two reasons:

- It is intentionally misleading (i.e. top of range is pure fiction).

- Upward mobility is so terrible, that they comingle multiple different tiers of expertise into the same job title.

There is no positive look from this.

[fatfingerd]

There are companies that actually can hire in this fashion, Google was and then perhaps pretended to be such a company.

One could break it up into separate jobs for the different levels but that's also misleading if you are considering 3 PhD experts and 2 mid-level or 7 juniors and 3 seniors, etc.

In theory its not all that bad when such a post is true, in that it means an individual contributor role might be higher than anywhere else in the industry.