Is 10 years the bar for what counts as an experienced developer? Why is 10 the magic number? I would say someone with 5 years experience could be senior to som

Is 10 years the bar for what counts as an experienced developer? Why is 10 the magic number? I would say someone with 5 years experience could be senior to someone with 10 years under their belt, granted the former worked on the right projects that gave them valuable experience, with some combination of design, understanding trade offs, implementation, and social/management skills managing delivery of their features or taking complexity and simplifying it (both technically and from a requirements perspective). You could work 10 years and not hit those points. I expect someone with 10 years is hands down more experienced than someone with just one year under their belt, but otherwise, looking at how long you’ve been in the industry is kind of meaningless without understanding what it is that you did.