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Out of curiosity, how many years of experience categorize a developer as "junior"?

• rkho 9y ago
  I don't think it's about years of experience -- someone who does the bare minimum for five years and never provides input could very well still be categorized as "junior"
  • chrisper 9y ago
    Would that also work the other way? Someone providing a lot of input within 2 years is to be considered senior?
    • troebr 9y ago
      It's all about what they bring to the table. Some people are clearly senior level after 2 years: they communicate well, they can mentor other engineers, they can criticize an existing design or plan the implementation of a new feature, have good organizational skills etc. After 2 years I wasn't able to provide constructive feedback without being a little too brash, I couldn't have designed anything distributed, I wouldn't have been able to break up a gigantic feature into smaller problems etc. I've worked with people who were technically competent and mature 2 years after school.