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

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Yogi Saputro

I think senior dev should have these qualities:

  • able to discuss and work on finer details of technical stuff with team members
  • able to communicate engineering impact and constraints with non-tech people

For me, the latter is more difficult. It is like being guardian to avoid headache on team members. Saying "no" to poorly defined features, explaining why small change in database takes couple of weeks. But it must be done.