One day you decide to start calling yourself such. I never held a job where I was hired as a Junior, or Senior Web Developer. I was always just a Web Developer.
There's no magical cutoff, and to make it worse, many of us fight imposter syndrome - resulting in us feeling like we don't 'deserve' the title. Work for a few years, do some projects, and try it out. Write it down in a statement, put it into your bio. Like magic, you're a Senior Web Developer. I think it's a natural progression when you expand your capabilities and knowledge.
A couple of years into position, management decided to attach "lead" and "senior" to the upper 2 tiers of employees (leaving the 1st tier simply 'developer'). My job didn't change, my responsibilities didn't change, but overnight I became a Lead Developer. Arguably, this was helping employees feel like their titles reflected their responsibilities.
Maybe when you're just a web developer (the company didn't give you any title) then some new junior web devs are recruited and voilà you're a sennior. What I like about all the answers is that a senior can be just a job title or someone who leads and with a lot of responsabilities focusing on the development process, or both.
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One day you decide to start calling yourself such. I never held a job where I was hired as a Junior, or Senior Web Developer. I was always just a Web Developer.
There's no magical cutoff, and to make it worse, many of us fight imposter syndrome - resulting in us feeling like we don't 'deserve' the title. Work for a few years, do some projects, and try it out. Write it down in a statement, put it into your bio. Like magic, you're a Senior Web Developer. I think it's a natural progression when you expand your capabilities and knowledge.
A couple of years into position, management decided to attach "lead" and "senior" to the upper 2 tiers of employees (leaving the 1st tier simply 'developer'). My job didn't change, my responsibilities didn't change, but overnight I became a Lead Developer. Arguably, this was helping employees feel like their titles reflected their responsibilities.
Maybe when you're just a web developer (the company didn't give you any title) then some new junior web devs are recruited and voilà you're a sennior. What I like about all the answers is that a senior can be just a job title or someone who leads and with a lot of responsabilities focusing on the development process, or both.