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I smell marketing BS to promote his newsletter... I have been dealing with computers since August 2000 and have never called myself "senior", even though at va

I smell marketing BS to promote his newsletter... I have been dealing with computers since August 2000 and have never called myself "senior", even though at various interviews I went through for potential hiring, the HR and / or their managers, even one CEO said my qualifications aligned with those of a very experienced senior developer or software engineering which left me both speechless and baffling...me, senior? No way...

icedchai 3y ago
You are probably senior (or higher) after over 2 decades of experience. Why do you think otherwise?
- stefanos82 3y ago
  I've just saw the replies; oops!; my bad! The reason is simple: I went for junior positions because the only web development professional experience I have is a 2-year web developer dealing with SEO stuff back in 2006 until 2008. Now on a personal level, that's another story; I have done multiple NDA-ed projects which I could not share with them, unfortunately :/ The main "excuse" I went for junior positions is so I can enter the market and acquire what tech stack and tools companies use, in contrast to what I personally use to deliver a project.
  - icedchai 3y ago
    You can't describe, in vague terms, what you did on your NDA-ed projects? I don't believe it.
    - stefanos82 3y ago
      I did describe to them what I have implemented, explained the logic behind it, but they wanted to see the actual source code which I could not share for legal reasons as I have stated (NDA). Feel free to believe whatever you like, no worries.
      - icedchai 3y ago
        In 25 years I’ve never been in an interview where I was asked to share source code from a previous project. What you described seems unusual.
MPSimmons 3y ago
Here's a question that I have learned to ask myself whenever I am in that situation: "Okay, I don't feel like a $whatever. What knowledge, skills, or abilities would I need to have to to be considered that thing?" If you can't answer, then maybe you are the $whatever role here. or maybe "Would I consider someone else with my experience, skillset, and abilities to be $whatever?"

icedchai 3y ago

You are probably senior (or higher) after over 2 decades of experience. Why do you think otherwise?

stefanos82 3y ago
I've just saw the replies; oops!; my bad! The reason is simple: I went for junior positions because the only web development professional experience I have is a 2-year web developer dealing with SEO stuff back in 2006 until 2008. Now on a personal level, that's another story; I have done multiple NDA-ed projects which I could not share with them, unfortunately :/ The main "excuse" I went for junior positions is so I can enter the market and acquire what tech stack and tools companies use, in contrast to what I personally use to deliver a project.
- icedchai 3y ago
  You can't describe, in vague terms, what you did on your NDA-ed projects? I don't believe it.
  - stefanos82 3y ago
    I did describe to them what I have implemented, explained the logic behind it, but they wanted to see the actual source code which I could not share for legal reasons as I have stated (NDA). Feel free to believe whatever you like, no worries.
    - icedchai 3y ago
      In 25 years I’ve never been in an interview where I was asked to share source code from a previous project. What you described seems unusual.

MPSimmons 3y ago

Here's a question that I have learned to ask myself whenever I am in that situation: "Okay, I don't feel like a $whatever. What knowledge, skills, or abilities would I need to have to to be considered that thing?" If you can't answer, then maybe you are the $whatever role here. or maybe "Would I consider someone else with my experience, skillset, and abilities to be $whatever?"