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Discussion on: What is a Senior Developer *Really*?

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Charanjit Chana

💯 agree on mentoring. Enabling others is so important, your team/product may only be as strong as the “weakest” developer so Senior Devs can use their experience to bring up the skills of everyone else. That then means everyone is making better decisions and writing better code.

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Bill Miller

I agree as well. A good senior is hoping to develop teammates to become peers to accomplish more interesting tasks together as a team.

They should also be interested in learning new things from anyone, because by default a senior will have more experience and therefore their education was further in the past than a more recent person entering the field. Things change, and keeping up with the changes is what makes a good developer at any level. The people that learn just enough to do their job, are rarely good seniors.