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Discussion on: You Deserve to be a Software Developer

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Brandon Kindred • Edited

In my opinion, the number of years experience in a programming language or technology isn't what makes someone a senior level developer. It's entirely possible for a developer to have 1 year of experience 10 times over, so years of experience is a garbage metric. I actually consider the title of senior to be absolutely dependent on junior level employees being present. If a senior developer isn't mentoring and growing a junior developer's skills then they aren't a senior level developer.

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Michael MacTaggert

Absolutely agree with this.

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upendramanve

Couldn't agree more.

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Vladimir Donets

+1 Absolutely.

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Zane Milakovic

I see this all the time. I can’t tell you how many interviews I have done with a senior person with 10 plus years does not have the competence and experience to do a junior level develops task on my teams.

It comes down to experience.

This is the same reason I have junior developers do code reviews, knowledge shares, and in short treat them like any other developer. As their experience grows, so does there responsibilities.