Seniority shouldn’t be time served. I’d have no problems with someone being a senior whatever if they walk the walk. I’m in data engineering myself these days

Seniority shouldn’t be time served. I’d have no problems with someone being a senior whatever if they walk the walk. I’m in data engineering myself these days but if I jumped into some other area, even one I didn’t know from previously, I’d set out to walk the walk there too. It’s not like “We know you’re staff now, but that is backend, so we’ll make you an associate front end dev” or whatever?