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Senior engineers are living in the future

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Re: Senior engineers are living in the future

#5

HN headline tomorrow: Senior engineers are literally gods

Except that's not at all what the article is suggesting. Quite the opposite.

> it is literally effortless to accidentally cultivate the impression of being some kind of wizard

Re: Senior engineers are living in the future

#6
a great article, we software engineers are impatient and we tend to job hop often. Being an effective engineer is about more than knowing how to build systems and code, it also requires deep domain knowledge into your company's business and existing systems and this knowledge takes years to cultivate at the same company. All the superstars at my current company have been here for a while.

Re: Senior engineers are living in the future

#9

a great article, we software engineers are impatient and we tend to job hop often. Being an effective engineer is about more than knowing how to build systems and code, it also requires deep domain knowledge into your company's business and existing systems and this knowledge takes years to cultivate at the same company. All the superstars at my current company have been here for a while.

> we software engineers are impatient and we tend to job hop often.

This has been the only way to increase our pay beyond measly 2-5% growth if you stay at the same company.

I would love to not jobhop and become a 'superstar' but making half the pay of your peers is really intolerable.

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