How long are we going to hold onto this silly 10,000 hours thing? Mastery, and high levels of skill, are a combination of inherent talent + explicit effort (not

How long are we going to hold onto this silly 10,000 hours thing? Mastery, and high levels of skill, are a combination of inherent talent + explicit effort (not passive time) + quality of experience. I have seen 15 year experienced engineers who are utterly useless, and 2 year engineers who are incredible in everything they do. Your description of a senior engineer is not a job one person should be doing. If you’re trying to get a senior engineer to figure out how to make something, support it, deploy it, and monetize it, you’re going to get half assed work on every front. Beyond all that, the ranking of senior should be more company scale specific. A senior engineer at FAANG needs to be able to scale infinity and build things that never break. A senior engineer at a 30 person company needs to build quickly and AB test features rapidly. Ultimately, “software engineer” is far too broad. It doesn’t really embed much knowledge beyond “knows how to code”.