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Discussion on: Am I (not) a mid-level dev yet?

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Austin Standing

Thanks Andrew! I know open-source/publicized projects are a priority to some, but I've never heard a lack of job-hopping marked as a downside. I would be interested to read your own checklist, and thanks for taking the time. You did some digging, and you were clear with your feedback.

I could certainly update my profile with the progression of projects I've worked, even if they haven't come with a change in title or company. Without giving away client names or NDA prohibited details, I would like to compile some metrics such as number of projects contributed to, New Relic incidents claimed/resolved, people/departments trained, and if appropriate (or even available) the amount my company has billed for my dev work and how that has increased with time.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

You may already understand what I meant but figured I'd throw an image here and show in greater detail.

You can see career progression two ways, leaving a company for a better title.
Another is seeing progression within that company. Here is a good example of progression within 3 years for Toronto

If I were in San Fran I would consider job title progression to occurs as soon as every 3 months up to 3 times, so we see a serious jump in 9 months to a year.

You are in Salt Lake City so I'm not sure if this is local recruitment for your area or you are looking for jobs elsewhere in states. I can really only tell you how it is for recruitment for these big city tech hubs though I think the advice is applicable anywhere.

You can all those metrics, Not sure how much they will help honestly.

That checklist article is on my todo list.