Staff Engineer Communities
Is there anything resembling consistency on level titles across the industry? That certainly hasn't been my experience; in my bit of AWS "staff" refers to L5 employees, ie good graduate level or lightly experienced. Below that is associate (L4), and above is senior (L6) and then principal (L7). I gather Google (and possibly others) insert a staff level between senior and principal - but for the life of me I don't understand why they would choose that label.