Perhaps it depends on the field. The software business has no standardized titles or career progression. Many companies inflate titles or let programmers choose their own. You “become” senior when your colleagues acknowledge you as such.
We can choose our own title at my current workplace, but you are expected to know who the tech leads are even if they aren’t officially communicated information (I’m sure the managers have a list somewhere, but I have trouble figuring it out sometimes).
In research, I’d work with people who were super senior managers and…I’d never know and it wouldn’t matter.
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Perhaps it depends on the field. The software business has no standardized titles or career progression. Many companies inflate titles or let programmers choose their own. You “become” senior when your colleagues acknowledge you as such.
We can choose our own title at my current workplace, but you are expected to know who the tech leads are even if they aren’t officially communicated information (I’m sure the managers have a list somewhere, but I have trouble figuring it out sometimes).
In research, I’d work with people who were super senior managers and…I’d never know and it wouldn’t matter.