Job Titles
by Miki Saxon
One of the dumbest (stupidest?) actions during the original dot com boom was two-fold.
The first was title inflation, with larger companies taking a leaf from the financial services industry where customer-facing positions, such as brokers and non-teller positions, were often VPs.
Second, bigger titles were often handed out in lieu of promotions and raises, while in the startup community titles bore little-to-no relationship to the person’s skills or experience.
Both created major problems for candidates when interviewing at new companies, especially for those who bought into their titles. It came as shock that the skills required to be a VP in a “real” company are seriously different than those needed in a startup.
That was then, but what’s happening now?
I got the answer in a list from CB Insights of tech’s silliest job titles.
It’s gotten worse.
Aside from confusing their customers and vendors, the titles sound totally idiotic to all but a very small slice of the tech world.
However, the titles do do a great job of strengthening gender bias and turning off women.
What more could any bro want?
Image credit: JJ Merelo
