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Pardon me, but how would you know as a non-dev?

• dijit 7y ago
  Fair question, I suppose. I'm in SRE, so I work closely with developers and programmers who build business logic, in fact I am surrounded by pretty much exclusively that except for a small supplement of testers and technical managers. So, I have some exposure. That and the very plain fact that the mindsets that you would use to delineate between "senior" and "mid" bands are just traits that could be apparent in varying degrees between people of any level. I've had mid-level developers identifying business needs on a macro level with a well broken down bite-sized methods of achieving what they set out to. I've had senior developers "informing" me about operating system semantics which were just not true. You can be senior in some areas and mid-level/junior in others. This is true across the whole spectrum.
  • epicgiga 7y ago
    Precisely, people should refrain from informing on topics outside their area of expertise. Pretty rife in western companies, "too many cooks" etc, must be the democratic mindset that every voice counts equally.
    • dijit 7y ago
      If this is a comment about me suggesting that your overgeneralisation is unwarranted because it is outside of my direct field then let me just say it this way: It is always true that trying to define behaviours of seniority is an overgeneralisation. It does not depend on the field unless there are formal qualifications, and even then it's tricky.
    • bdcravens 7y ago
      That would probably rule out about 90% of the discussion on HN.