Job-offer in Hi-tech semiconductor corporation

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<p>I am in a dilemma about a job offer from a top 10 semiconductor companies in SF bay area. I have about 10 years of experience at various small to large (> $1 billion) companies in bay area. After my Graduate degree about 10 years ago I started at a big company in Bay area as as Sr Engineer. However, due to job change after a 5 years from that position, more job changes afterward, and not caring too much about titles, I am currently (still) a Sr Engineer at another company. Having had so many years of experience in Hi-tech I now realize that titles are important too.</p>

<p>The dilemma is that this offer from another company also is for a Senior Software Engineer, and not a Staff or MTS title, which I after some investigation realize to be higher titles than just Sr engineer. Should I be asking the company (and its recruiter) to give me a higher title than a Sr Sw Engineer; is that expectation reasonable?</p>

<p>I had the same Sr Engineer title 7 years ago and after many job experiences and a graduate degree I think I should be acknowledged by the company making the job-offer as a higher staff engineer.</p>

<p>Is there any way to find information about the company hierarchy as I can not trust the information company’s recruiter is giving me due to his vested interest? There are reviews about the company on sites like glassdoor they do not provide any chance to post a question to employees of the company. Are there any interactive websites/forums for Hi-tech employees (hardware design as well as software) where one could ask such question and hopefully get an answer from someone working at the company?</p>

<p>PS: If needed, the company regularly appears in googled list of top 20 semiconductor corporation by sale for every year.</p>

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<p>What is the reason that you consider the job title to be important? (as opposed to characteristics like the type of work you will be doing, the pay and benefits, etc.)</p>

<p>Some companies just call everyone in a technical role an MTS. And companies which do have some sort of seniority ranking (“”, “senior”, “staff”, etc.) may not necessarily define it the same way as other companies do. If you are comparing title with others, then the seemingly “higher” titles may just be the result of “title inflation”.</p>

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<p>If the $$$ is right then the lower title is better anyway. Then next review cycle you can try to get a promotion which might lead to regular raise + promotion raise. Ultimately title doesn’t matter, nobody you work with would know it anyway.</p>

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<p>In very large companies they have a different sense of what is considered “senior” due to having more rungs on the job ladder.</p>