At least one conclusion from this thread is that there are camps of people with different beliefs, and you're senior to one camp, but not another. A productive

At least one conclusion from this thread is that there are camps of people with different beliefs, and you're senior to one camp, but not another. A productive engineer, or not. Even if you take this feedback to heart, you have a limited sample set of signals. Do you average them out, or do you only care about what one particular camp said (the camp that signs your check, perhaps)? Which camps get weighted more heavily? I don't think there are any real trends to observe yet. The field is too volatile with its labeling to really take seriously any kind of prescribed career plan to seniority that lasts beyond 3-5 years. It's also why we repeatedly test people in interviews.