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> Of course, those aren't hard rules, senior with 6 years is ok too, but let's dont be ridiculous with seniors BELOW 3 years. I've seen it legitimately happen
by jmalicki 3y ago
> Of course, those aren't hard rules, senior with 6 years is ok too, but let's dont be ridiculous with seniors BELOW 3 years.
I've seen it legitimately happen quite a few times, but these are rare. Examples of the sorts of people it applies to:
* Taking graduate CS classes at Ivy League universities while in high school
* Nationally/internationally ranked competitive programmers
* 4.0 GPAs in tough majors at elite schools without grade inflation
* Maintainer of parts of the Linux kernel while still in high school
It's not typical, but I've known many dozens of people like this who are legitimate tech leads at very selective companies with 1-3 years of professional employment experience. (edited: formatting)
- namaria 3y agoIn my view seniority is about breaking the mold you described above and learning about economics, politics, staffing, real world design constraints etc.
- jmalicki 3y agoThe people above have their tech chops perfected on day 1 of their professional employment. They get the economics, politics, staffing, real world design constraints polished while most juniors are learning about algorithms, design, and unit testing.
- namaria 3y ago> tech chops perfected on day 1 I don't really understand what you're getting at with your comment but this claim is nonsense.
- tester756 3y agoSure, but I've excluded such people >I'm not talking about highly skilled/talented people