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My favorite is the kid on their first job out of college who after 3 years is now "Senior". Seen too many of these to be funny. I worry about hiring.

• gedy 5y ago
  That was like the majority of my last company, ha.
• jakear 5y ago
  To be fair, a kid after three years of high school is "senior". As is a kid after 3 years of college. Perhaps your word2vec("senior") is what needs recalibrating.
  • ghiculescu 5y ago
    Not really, senior is meant to imply you are in the late stages of your career (or school or college or whatever) and have some wisdom to share. It’s reasonable to question if you can get that in a career - which could last 40 years! - when you are 3 years in.
    • thrwyoilarticle 5y ago
      This sounds a bit like King Canute saying the tide won't come in. Everywhere my peers are, senior just means a step up from plain engineer/developer & sits at roughly 5-10 years. The name doesn't have to mean anything, it could be interchangeable with the level numbers at larger companies - ask finance people what Vice President means.
      • throwaway984393 5y ago
        Sure, some industries have really stupid conventions. But historically the IT industry doesn't hand out Senior or Lead titles until you attain actual Senior-level characteristics. I know people who've worked for 15 years and aren't Senior.