I'm generally a fan of Phin Barnes, but two points here really bother me: 1. This claim is a brash overgeneralization: "Unlike a junior person, they won’t be o

I'm generally a fan of Phin Barnes, but two points here really bother me: 1. This claim is a brash overgeneralization: "Unlike a junior person, they won’t be open to feedback, guidance, or coaching required for improvement." Devil's advocate — there are junior people who are comfortable where they're at and who don't seem interested in becoming senior. Not everyone becomes advanced and/or a manager... especially with the proliferation of dev bootcamps these days. 2. Not all senior engineers are full of unqualified arrogance. > There are lots of people with the title but not the skills. They are hard to spot because they’re definitely not junior but they’re not really senior either. They’re mid-level engineers who have been convinced they’re senior by the ecosystem. He should know better than anyone that we're hardly "convinced they’re senior by the ecosystem". Startup title inflation is often there from day one, not added later on. Also, look at how rampant impostor syndrome is in this industry.