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Of course they do, they actually need senior knowledege. I've seen a lot of people who were given senior titles without the accompanying knowledege, its really
by bifrost 7y ago
Of course they do, they actually need senior knowledege.
I've seen a lot of people who were given senior titles without the accompanying knowledege, its really polluted the talent pool.
Finding "senior" engineers who write forkbombs is more common than you'd think.
- JohnFen 7y agoJob titles in the software dev world haven't been terribly meaningful for a very long time.
- bifrost 7y agoFair enough, but its still sad.
- LordFast 7y agoBased on what I've seen across multiple companies, only the biggest and most experienced ones understood how to do leveling correctly. Everyone else was basically flying by the seat of their pants. I think it's much more productive to label software engineers as being in stage 1 through stage 4 for most companies, and for 1000+ add stage 5 and for 10000+ add stage 6.
- JohnFen 7y agoThere was also a stretch of time following the dotcom bust when companies were handing out inflated titles rather than actual promotions or pay increases. I could be misremembering, but my memory is that was when titles became meaningless.
- LordFast 7y agoHeh, yeah. People problems tend to get solved in weird ways more often than not.