> I think that if you have 5 years of professional experience, you can't really call yourself a senior developer Thinking about what you can call yourself is k

> I think that if you have 5 years of professional experience, you can't really call yourself a senior developer Thinking about what you can call yourself is kind of backwards - you don't call yourself anything, the company that hires you has some title and if you pass through their interview process, you get the job and that's the title that you have. If you get a senior job without any experience, then you're still a senior engineer. The "I consider myself" or "people consider me" game is a waste of time, I don't get what difference it makes to tell yourself that you're at some arbitrary level that you set for yourself. And since job titles vary so much, you just learn not to treat them as some definitive signal.