I caught the car
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I caught the car
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#2"what does the dog actually do if it catches it?"
Author achieved the senior role, but is unsure what comes next.
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#3First of all, congratulations. As somebody that also achieved the senior developer title within the first three years of being hired out of University, mostly by luck: Yay money, but I wasn't a senior engineer really for another five years. For me, I needed to see the long term effects of the changes that I'd made and the software I had written to really understand the difference between cargo cult behaviour and what really mattered for the business I was working for.
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#4When I meet fellow devs, I ask what projects they've shipped. Roles are near-meaningless across companies and convey 0 information about what their work involves in my experience. I appreciate that OP learned something about the job through this article.
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#5Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service?
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#6Do we have thoughts on how important "senior"/"staff" is vs bullet points on resumes and the years of service?
I have no idea what goes on in the minds of HR people.
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#7I was senior in about three years. It helps to work for a consultancy company, they can charge a higher rate by calling me a senior.
Personally I don't think you can be a senior before ten years of fulltime work.
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#8So many kids on hacker news
- I’d say SWE is an experienced engineer not a senior developer- for Pete’s sake he graduated in 2023 that was 3 freaking years ago
I’ve been developing production software for 20 years now -
What other profession counts someone with 3 years of professional experience out of college as senior?
Maybe competitive sports? Or academic math?
If it means this kid is smart and good at coding sure ill buy that but experiences and wisdom are something else entirely..
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#9I was senior in about three years. It helps to work for a consultancy company, they can charge a higher rate by calling me a senior. Personally I don't think you can be a senior before ten years of fulltime work.
Maybe not neccesarily exactly ten years, but you couldn't be both a junior and a senior so far as the roles have meaning. A senior is supposed to know how to function within the company and obstinately perform certain roles in their certain way, but a junior is supposed to come into the company fresh and try to simplify the work with their eyes that are not trained to do it the senior's way. Neither person is wrong but the roles need to be in opposition.
That's why it's so annoying to read about companies who think they can replace junior workers with AI. While imagining they're living in the future, they're not thinking about the future at all.
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#10I was senior in about three years. It helps to work for a consultancy company, they can charge a higher rate by calling me a senior. Personally I don't think you can be a senior before ten years of fulltime work.
That’s sort of how it works in banks where basically everyone is a VP.