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I spent 5+ years in the industry and felt weird calling myself senior. Just because you are a friend with CEO and he can vouch for your title doesn't make you s

I spent 5+ years in the industry and felt weird calling myself senior. Just because you are a friend with CEO and he can vouch for your title doesn't make you senior. In 2 years of experience how many serious products can you take from start to finish? In my opinion, a senior developer is a person who did this multiple times. It's almost like calling yourself lead developer of 1 man team...

azhenley 8y ago
Being Lead Developer in a one person team definitely sounds reasonable. You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities (even more so than if the team was bigger?).
- jobigoud 8y ago
  > You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities Except the responsibility of leading other people, on a resume this title would imply you gained that experience while in fact you didn't.
  - azhenley 8y ago
    I've never interpreted it as meaning leading people but rather leading the development of a project (or some portion of it). In fact, at IBM, I saw teams have multiple lead devs.
  - C1sc0cat 8y ago
    "lead" doesn't mean that at all in this context it's technical leadership
    - jobigoud 8y ago
      To me even technical leadership still implies there are people that are less technically advanced that follow or benefit from the leadership. In general any leader implies followers, otherwise, what are you leading? Note that I didn't say manage other people. I'm talking about helping get the better of the team, showing a junior member how things can be done better, etc. Like a team captain, not a coach.
fjsolwmv 8y ago
At a bank, the salespeople and analysts are called Vice Presidents. It's just a name.
Blaiz0r 8y ago
Titles are a means to categorise resource by HR. Titles merely offer a bracket of salary that a resource can have, once they reach the peak they either have to go up a rank or leave to get more pay.

azhenley 8y ago

Being Lead Developer in a one person team definitely sounds reasonable. You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities (even more so than if the team was bigger?).

jobigoud 8y ago
> You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities Except the responsibility of leading other people, on a resume this title would imply you gained that experience while in fact you didn't.
- azhenley 8y ago
  I've never interpreted it as meaning leading people but rather leading the development of a project (or some portion of it). In fact, at IBM, I saw teams have multiple lead devs.
- C1sc0cat 8y ago
  "lead" doesn't mean that at all in this context it's technical leadership
  - jobigoud 8y ago
    To me even technical leadership still implies there are people that are less technically advanced that follow or benefit from the leadership. In general any leader implies followers, otherwise, what are you leading? Note that I didn't say manage other people. I'm talking about helping get the better of the team, showing a junior member how things can be done better, etc. Like a team captain, not a coach.

fjsolwmv 8y ago

At a bank, the salespeople and analysts are called Vice Presidents. It's just a name.

Blaiz0r 8y ago

Titles are a means to categorise resource by HR. Titles merely offer a bracket of salary that a resource can have, once they reach the peak they either have to go up a rank or leave to get more pay.