Difference between vice presidents and directors

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I feel like titles rarely mean anything anymore.

[Anonymous]

At my Fortune 500, it goes analyst, manager, senior manager, director, senior director, VP, managing VP, SVP, Executive VP (only 2-3 of these), C level.

[Anonymous]

I clicked into this knowing we would be talking about financial services. since the dawn of time everyone at a bank is a "VP".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my Fortune 500, it goes analyst, manager, senior manager, director, senior director, VP, managing VP, SVP, Executive VP (only 2-3 of these), C level.

Meant to say this is not a bank or financial services though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is 25 and all his friend who work in finance or for banks are called VP on LinkedIn.

I was laughing about it and my son was not understanding why 3 years experience and VP or even associate VP lowers the meaning of VP.

Yup, my friend was a VP at a bank at 24 or 25. Also, there may be SVPs and EVPs as well. The only way to be sure somebody is senior management is if they have "Chief" in their title. That one pretty unanimously means the top of some portion of the organization. But some places don't even use chief anything. I can think of a non-profit where there is a (volunteer) Board of Directors but the top person there (who reports only to the Board) is "Director."