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Looks like good diagnostic criteria to me. If you are only y out of x, maybe you aren't a senior after all, or like you said, a bad senior, someone who's spent
by dsego 8y ago
Looks like good diagnostic criteria to me. If you are only y out of x, maybe you aren't a senior after all, or like you said, a bad senior, someone who's spent 10 years not growing and acquiring necessary skills to support your team and company. What would be the other definition then? Would you consider someone who doesn't have any of the listed abilities a senior?
- onion2k 8y agoWould you consider someone who doesn't have any of the listed abilities a senior? Take someone like Linus Torvalds - he's famous for not being particularly nice to 'junior' developers who are new to the Linux ecosystem and don't follow the rules, he's not really a "specialized generalist" because he's always deep in the kernel and that's pretty much it, and he doesn't do politics to the point where he announced he was taking stock of the way he's treated people and trying to do better. Is he a senior developer? Of course he is. You don't get much more senior. It's easy to think of senior developers we've all worked with who don't meet some or even any of these criteria. Consequently, in my opinion, the criteria are not right in a lot of people's circumstances. They may be right in yours, but that's not very useful.