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Discussion on: What's a senior dev anyway?

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

An older one. Seriously. In every company I've worked in over 27 years, it usually just boils down to age (experience)

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Lorenzo Zarantonello

That's also an unfortunate truth, in my opinion.
From one side, I would hope that everyone who works long enough can learn enough.
On the other side, this is often far from the truth.
It seems like companies cannot justify salary increases over a certain threshold without changing the job title, so there someone gets it it for seniority and not because of their competences.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Yup - experience often does not correlate with competence