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The role of a senior developer

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Matt Briggs[^]:

    The reality we live in is that “Senior Developer” means a person who has been slinging code for more than 3 years. These people are put into leadership positions, and typically things play out as you would expect — quite badly.

    "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

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      Matt Briggs[^]:

      The reality we live in is that “Senior Developer” means a person who has been slinging code for more than 3 years. These people are put into leadership positions, and typically things play out as you would expect — quite badly.

      "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

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      Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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      I have more than 4 years of experience so I would count myself as senior. Otherwise, a senior is someone who has a very bad attitude toward the juniors, always willing to prove them wrong, unethical, stupid and sometimes inhumane. Too senior to be a human! :sigh:

      The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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        Matt Briggs[^]:

        The reality we live in is that “Senior Developer” means a person who has been slinging code for more than 3 years. These people are put into leadership positions, and typically things play out as you would expect — quite badly.

        "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

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        Lost User
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        Just as it takes 10 years to write good software (see Spolsky[^]), it equally takes 10 years to become good at something.

        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

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          Matt Briggs[^]:

          The reality we live in is that “Senior Developer” means a person who has been slinging code for more than 3 years. These people are put into leadership positions, and typically things play out as you would expect — quite badly.

          "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

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          These days a bunch of grads got a title Technical Lead, Systems Lead ... with in 6th month or less. This is v annoying and ethically wrong IMHO.Don't mention how they got the job. NO INTERVIEW(it's who you know rather than what you know).

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