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ELI5: What's the difference between a Senior Vice President and a Vice President of a company?

Are their duties completely different? Why the difference in the titles? I notice, like at General Motors, there's a lot of both.
gpt
Strongly depends on the company. In some companies, it's an executive position. In others-- especially client-facing ones such as banks, consultancies, and marketing agencies, VP can be a popular title for most mid-career positions. This started out as a way to make clients feel that they were interfacing with someone important, but it's since then drifted into non-client-facing roles at those companies due to title inflation. Mid-level (not even managerial) corporate employees at investment banks, for example, tend to be VPs. Their bosses are SVPs. In other companies, they would be managers, directors, or maybe VPs.