It is important to note that a larger corporation vs. consultancy will typically have different titles, responsibilities and requirements. Often, a larger corporation may have more stratified levels that correspond to a larger HR plan, so may be more strict with titles and years experience. As well, responsibilities are often less per role as spread out to a larger team.
For example, in a large corporation, an intermediate designer may need to have 3-5 years experience, but may actually have less hands-on experience, breadth of skills and accomplishments than someone just titled “designer” in a smaller consultancy or corporate setting with the same or more experience.
I’ve run into this myself in the past interviewing with larger corporations that only looked at “years” and not actual experience. HR has to follow a pay scale or it makes it difficult to arrange the total compensation plan.
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