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Back in my day, Staff was below Senior.

But staff engineer wasn’t really used, and title inflation started giving out senior level titles for 3 years experience, so I guess Staff got rebranded as more senior than senior.

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The difference is often that “Member of technical staff” and “Staff” are two different things. Lots of companies have “member of staff” ~= swe 1 and 2 but then simultaneously also have staff above senior.

Same. "Staff" was entry level. The word "Junior" was not used in job titles, and I still think it sounds belittling.

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