> That bubble is not the world

Hence the author's "In the software engineering world".

Nothing in author's write-up led me to think he doesn't understand that.

Yeah, no. Most companies do not have that exact hierarchy. Maybe at FAMGA etc, but most engineering jobs are not there.

	▲	browningstreet 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, not that exact hierarchy. But a hierarchy. At other places it might be Senior, Principal, Director, etc. at some places they’re given, at other places you fight for it. Variations of leveling.