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My view as a burgeoning senior dev is that the "senior" bit is generally less about coding and more about domain knowledge. Understanding the business processe
by dehugger 2y ago
My view as a burgeoning senior dev is that the "senior" bit is generally less about coding and more about domain knowledge.
Understanding the business processes of your industry, how to solicit feedback from and interact with end users, how to explain things to management/sell on ideas.
If you put a junior dev in front of a panel of executives and ask them to explain requirements for a project odds are quite high they will info dump tech mumbo-jumbo. A senior should be able to explain risks, benefits, timelines, and impacted areas of the business in a manner that non technical people can easily grok.
- vsuperpower2020 2y agoFor me, "senior" just counts the amount of time they've been doing something. If someone isn't very good at something after putting ten thousand hours into it, they just might work at microsoft.
- truncate 2y ago>> they will info dump tech mumbo-jumbo I'm mid-level engineer. Honestly, several staff+ engineers may not be spitting tech mumbo-jumbo, but they do dump all other kind of BS. Political BS, "tactical tornados"[1]. May not necessarily mean they were good at engineering, but just good with people skills. Obviously, not everyone is like that, but I would say many are. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394287#:~:text=The%20tactical%20tornado%20is%20a,treats%20tactical%20tornadoes%20as%20heroes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33394287#:~:text=The%20....
- skydhash 2y agoIf it will be BS, it should be understandable BS.