My take is that unless the entire industry is willing to band together and establish actual definitions with quantifiable values then it's always going to continue to be a messy and ambiguous label.
The fact is that there is significant financial incentive for people to apply a senior title to themselves, and not difficult at all to find a small company where a single dev takes on roles and responsibilities at a "senior level" by most traditional definitions of the term, except of course "years of experience."
Then YoE similarly tends to have a weaker correlation with skill level in software than other fields, presumably due to the incredible speed at which things change.
I don't think there's any easy answers, but I personally never fault another developer for playing the silly "title" game to further their career.
The entire industry banding together for anything is something I don't see happening so soon (or you know, ever).
But the compensation part... the position will pay what it will pay, but the title behind will attract or repel some. I also see a bunch of "senior" positions that are paying less than those mythical few "junior" positions.
But you're right, it's difficult to find a good answer. I just hope it would be easier to at least weed out some obvious bad ones.
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My take is that unless the entire industry is willing to band together and establish actual definitions with quantifiable values then it's always going to continue to be a messy and ambiguous label.
The fact is that there is significant financial incentive for people to apply a senior title to themselves, and not difficult at all to find a small company where a single dev takes on roles and responsibilities at a "senior level" by most traditional definitions of the term, except of course "years of experience."
Then YoE similarly tends to have a weaker correlation with skill level in software than other fields, presumably due to the incredible speed at which things change.
I don't think there's any easy answers, but I personally never fault another developer for playing the silly "title" game to further their career.
The entire industry banding together for anything is something I don't see happening so soon (or you know, ever).
But the compensation part... the position will pay what it will pay, but the title behind will attract or repel some. I also see a bunch of "senior" positions that are paying less than those mythical few "junior" positions.
But you're right, it's difficult to find a good answer. I just hope it would be easier to at least weed out some obvious bad ones.