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Originally Posted by GGG
This actually is very important to many people and works.
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It works if you're a gullible idiot or don't care about real advancement. It also works if you were already planning to quit and just need a slightly fancier title to pump up your resume.
Story, unrelated to Canadian politics:
Spoiler!
At my last company, they invented a job title called "Technical Architect" to which they would "promote" people who were at the top of their game as senior consultants, but that the company didn't want to pay significantly more money to... which would be a requirement of an actual promotion into a role like Solution Architect. So you'd take all these high performers and try to placate them simply by stuffing them into a role with contrived title and a job description so similar to their previous role that you'd be forgiven for thinking someone copied and pasted... under the guise of a 'promotion'. Still doing the same work, but now with a fancier title.
Needless to say, the management folks who thought this was an effective employee retention strategy were clearly morons of the highest order, and anyone who was sharp enough to see through the ruse left as soon as they found a landing spot upon realizing they were being treated with such disrespect. One landed at Google, even.
While I believe it is still a thing there, it seems dramatically reduced and at least some of the management who thought this was a good idea are either no longer at the company, or not in a role permitting them to make such stupid decisions moving forward. Yes, it may be a 'real' title elsewhere, but in this instance it was purely window dressing.