[LgWoodenBadger]

Titles are what “salary comparisons” go by when HR “compares” compensation between employees and “competition.”

What else would they be able to use?

[nitwit005]

I was promoted to senior software engineer three times in my early career. They just tossed out the title as a freebee more-or-less, and the hiring companies told me I was too young/inexperienced for it.

There seems to be an understanding that happens, which means they ignore it.

[jghn]

> What else would they be able to use?

I tell them what my range is. If they don't want to meet my range, then I tell them to GTFO.

Isn't that what everyone does?