In many places Senior titles and above are utterly meaningless. Even within an organization no one knows what they mean.
One manager years ago explained that the difference in titles indicated the number of our applications the developers had worked on. That was the only way they knew to measure skill.
Some people will know what I'm talking about. If some don't, that's a good thing. In many environments there is no interest in improving the quality of work. The idea that there even is such a thing as quality or any sort of best practices is alien. They measure success by producing an initial hacked-together release of some web site and then suffer the consequences for years without learning anything. And everyone is a senior developer.
In many places Senior titles and above are utterly meaningless. Even within an organization no one knows what they mean.
One manager years ago explained that the difference in titles indicated the number of our applications the developers had worked on. That was the only way they knew to measure skill.
Some people will know what I'm talking about. If some don't, that's a good thing. In many environments there is no interest in improving the quality of work. The idea that there even is such a thing as quality or any sort of best practices is alien. They measure success by producing an initial hacked-together release of some web site and then suffer the consequences for years without learning anything. And everyone is a senior developer.
Different titles may also indicate how many jobs you have switched. When switching jobs your progress in titles will be much faster.