Priya Raghavan ·
Titles are not comparable between companies and compensation mostly is
A staff engineer at one company maps to a senior at another and a lead at a third. When you are evaluating a move, compare the scope described in the role and the total compensation. Optimising for the title on the offer letter is how people end up with a promotion that means less than the job they left.
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