1. Let me tell you the secret: if you call and market yourself as junior, then you WILL be limited to junior opportunities. The idea that someone is a junior en

1. Let me tell you the secret: if you call and market yourself as junior, then you WILL be limited to junior opportunities. The idea that someone is a junior engineer is a self-limiting and self-filtering belief. Very few companies will say they want junior employees, for good reason (there is something amateurish about calling yourself a junior employee - I can't quite put my finger on it). But that doesn't mean that when a company advertises a "[Normal] Software Engineer" position, you're disqualified (you aren't). Most fresh college grads I know don't call themselves junior engineers; why should you? 2. The market for senior developers is red-red hot. The market for normal software engineers (including junior, entry-level, whatever labels you want) is merely "hot" - but there is still plenty of opportunity to go around. What bohnej is saying doesn't align with what I've seen in SV.