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[Sarcasm on]I think the most shocking of this is that an engineer with 7 years is already a senior these days. I even heard more shocking things like people wit
by fogetti 8y ago
[Sarcasm on]I think the most shocking of this is that an engineer with 7 years is already a senior these days. I even heard more shocking things like people with 3-5 years are already seniors. So what about people with 15 years? How shall we call them? Super senior? How about 30? Call them mega-giga-super-senior? And 40? Principal-giga-senior?[Sarcasm off]
Having said that, I actually agree with everything the article says.
- bgirard 8y agoSenior is typically one or two promotions above the entry level. After that the titles resemble something like this: Staff Senior Staff Principal Senior Principal Distinguished Fellow
- purple_ducks 8y ago_Typically_, all those titles don't exist unless you're in IBM-size company. At best, somebody might have a "tech lead" title but it's not what people hire for. _Typically_, companies hire for grad, junior, software engineer and senior software engineer. Maybe principal once in a blue moon.
- richardknop 8y agoI think 7 years is definitely enough to be a senior but it depends on your experience. If you have worked for Google last 7 years it’s very likely you have been promoted 3-4 times and have a lot of experience with large scale production systems. So I’d definitely say such person is senior.