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Seniority in my perspective can be measured best in your soft skills. So you need someone to explain you what you need to do. Do you lead other people. Do you t
by oaiey 3y ago
Seniority in my perspective can be measured best in your soft skills. So you need someone to explain you what you need to do. Do you lead other people. Do you teach. Do you self manage your workload. So you report stuff the right way. Do you treat your environment the right way. Do you do the right things.
Because coding is something you master once in a sufficient way.
- oaiey 3y agoOh and btw, there are evaluation frameworks for that.
- dagw 3y agoAt the civil engineering company I used to work for they differentiated between Specialist Engineers and Project Engineers. Senior Project Engineers were people who could lead a team and deliver a project from beginning to end. Senior Specialist Engineers were expected to have a ~PhD level of knowledge in their area of expertise and be able to deliver cutting edge solutions and/or conduct novel research. Also no one was just a "Senior Engineer" they were always "Senior Engineers in X" I think this sort of differentiation between what we expect of our "engineers" is quite useful.
- oaiey 3y agoOh definitely. Not every specialization has the same requirements focus in seniority. But nevertheless, even in the most technical and domain focus areas, higher ranked roles are always including significant soft skills in one area or another. As an architect my specialization is technology and not people leadership. However, when you build very large solutions as an architect, your soft skills will be the dominant measurement of your seniority. Latest when you sit next to the CEO and CIO, soft skills are the only things which advance your career.