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I don't think this is a "senior level knowledge" Seniority comes mostly from experience 5/10 years Of course some companies give senior titles for people with

I don't think this is a "senior level knowledge" Seniority comes mostly from experience 5/10 years Of course some companies give senior titles for people with 2-3 years of xp, but I think we can all agree that this is big "XD"

akmarinov 6y ago
Seniority based on time spent in the field is also a “XD”, though.
- tester34 6y ago
  Of course it's not perfect. If there was perfect proxy for good people then $BIG_TECH would pay barrow of money for this. 10 years of experience says that person probably have seen a lot of software / projects / decisions and stuff. Of course you could maintain one system for 10 years and struggle in new environment, but also there's difference between maintaining CRUD app for 10 years vs maintaining Linux kernel
- whatshisface 6y ago
  For technical experience it's not a good indicator, for interpersonal experience it's spot on. It's easy to avoid doing anything technically difficult, but interpersonal situations arise unavoidably at a set rate, providing experience that you can't accelerate by having a weekend coding hobby.
glintik 6y ago
Lots of questions are definitely for Senior level engineers or even devops, i.e. - "HTTP 2 vs HTTP 1.1". There is nothing useful for junior level developer to know the difference of such low level things. Anyway, junior engineer will have no chance to decide what HTTP protocol to use in his project in Apple. Another example - "NodeJS event loop internals". Nothing useful for junior, senior level+ is assumed, if you want squeeze out of maximum performance from NodeJS V8.
- tester34 6y ago
  >Lots of questions are definitely for Senior level engineers or even devops, i.e. - "HTTP 2 vs HTTP 1.1" I think this kind of question just shows whether you're interested in web or not, because I bet that you could read differences between those two in 10min from some summary or RFCs. Everything depends on how deep understanding between those two you had to show.
  - glintik 6y ago
    Even if you know differences between HTTP 1 and 2 it will not help you with web developement at all. In some rare cases web engineer can get performance boost for client to load data more quickly, but usually nobody cares about this.
Mauricebranagh 6y ago
A lot of SV companies seem to give "senior" out like candy

akmarinov 6y ago

Seniority based on time spent in the field is also a “XD”, though.

tester34 6y ago
Of course it's not perfect. If there was perfect proxy for good people then $BIG_TECH would pay barrow of money for this. 10 years of experience says that person probably have seen a lot of software / projects / decisions and stuff. Of course you could maintain one system for 10 years and struggle in new environment, but also there's difference between maintaining CRUD app for 10 years vs maintaining Linux kernel
whatshisface 6y ago
For technical experience it's not a good indicator, for interpersonal experience it's spot on. It's easy to avoid doing anything technically difficult, but interpersonal situations arise unavoidably at a set rate, providing experience that you can't accelerate by having a weekend coding hobby.

glintik 6y ago

Lots of questions are definitely for Senior level engineers or even devops, i.e. - "HTTP 2 vs HTTP 1.1". There is nothing useful for junior level developer to know the difference of such low level things. Anyway, junior engineer will have no chance to decide what HTTP protocol to use in his project in Apple. Another example - "NodeJS event loop internals". Nothing useful for junior, senior level+ is assumed, if you want squeeze out of maximum performance from NodeJS V8.

tester34 6y ago
>Lots of questions are definitely for Senior level engineers or even devops, i.e. - "HTTP 2 vs HTTP 1.1" I think this kind of question just shows whether you're interested in web or not, because I bet that you could read differences between those two in 10min from some summary or RFCs. Everything depends on how deep understanding between those two you had to show.
- glintik 6y ago
  Even if you know differences between HTTP 1 and 2 it will not help you with web developement at all. In some rare cases web engineer can get performance boost for client to load data more quickly, but usually nobody cares about this.

Mauricebranagh 6y ago

A lot of SV companies seem to give "senior" out like candy