@grimalkina thank you! Your writing helps me see (american) tech culture in a new perspective. I've never worked in a software startup or big tech, so a lot of it seems strange to me on a surface level. One thing that came to mind is the German-speaking world's obsession with the "engineer" titles, to the point where you have "requirements engineers" and "business engineers".
I remember an English colleague's quip, who obviously didn't think it held any prestige: "I'm not an engineer, I don't have a spanner! "