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Discussion on: What projects should somebody have and experience to be a senior?

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Quentin Delcourt

From personal experience, I have the feeling that one way to go from a junior developer to a more experienced developer is to work on a project that is a complete train wreck 😅
It is of course not an ideal situation at all and I think there are far better ways to gain experience. But for me it was that. I knew it was wrong to take the project in the first place but I got into the situation where I could not refuse to work on it. The timing was horrible, there was scope creep, management not allowing time to write automated tests. And I made a lot of mistakes and shouldn't have been head of this project after only 4 years of experience.
But doing all of these errors made me learn so much. If only I had a safety net...

This was written in other comments but really, mentoring is very important and it takes time to learn and be experienced.