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Originally Posted by tnff
What I've seen is those are primary pay scale titles, not anything of technical meaning. Something like:
Scientist 1 -- entry level, lowest paid
Scientist 2, 3, 4 -- higher pay scale
Senior, Lead, etc. top of the pay scale. Often used to add management responsibilities without management authority or pay scale.
How many levels is very company dependent so there's no universal definition of what they mean.
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Exactly, it has more to do with the pay band of the employee. At my company, I am the Lead Release Engineer. We also have a Principal Cloud Architect. We don't have any direct reports, but are paid more than those with the "associate, senior, junior" job titles.