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Discussion on: When to apply for senior Developer position?

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Ruben Sanchez

Do you have other senior devs in your company? If so, you can observe what kind of issues they resolve, what kind of tasks they are assigned to, and generally what are their duties. That way you can get a clearer picture of what it means to be a senior developer.

The issue comes when you realize that every company has a different definition of this. So a person that would be ok to be a senior in one place, might not be qualified enough to be senior in a different place. Some companies care about soft skills, some others don't care that much and are just focused in the fact that you should have very strong tech skills.

Because of the uncertainty to get a magical recipe of what is the definition of senior, try to apply to some positions, so when you are doing the interview you can get a clearer feeling of what is required. It has happened to me in the past, I signed up for interviews where I was a bit unqualified, but the interviews were helpful to understand what kind of things they wanted and what sorts of problems they would want to be resolved.