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Discussion on: What does being a senior mean to you?

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Randall

A senior engineer is independent. You can give them a task, and they will go talk to the right people, do research, figure out a good approach, and implement it. They get stuck very rarely. When working in areas of a codebase that they are unfamiliar with, they will speak to those who know more about it, but they don't have to. They have the skills to figure everything out on their own, if they must. To me, that's the main trait of a senior engineer.