>Junior developers get hired on their technical skills. Mid-career developers get hired on their communications, interpersonal, and domain understanding skills.

>Junior developers get hired on their technical skills. Mid-career developers get hired on their communications, interpersonal, and domain understanding skills. I found this to be true outside of tech hubs (Silicon Valley, NYC, London, etc.) but in tech hubs mid career developers absolutely do get hired on tech skills. Even outside of tech hubs, mid career developers might not be hired on their technical skills directly, but they'll definitely get hired for a work history that implies stellar technical skills (e.g. a 2 year stint at Google). This happens not because tech skills aren't valued outside of hubs, but because there's a dearth of people to actually assess them properly. This is, I think, where the idea that domain knowledge/people skills are more important - from people working in, say, Oklahoma City rather than NYC.