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A comment on Ask HN: How do you define a junior developer?. Parent comment
Without supervision:
* can they be trusted to take a story and turn it into a list of one or more problems which are solvable and sensible to solve?
* given a list of problems, can they be trusted to select appropriate tools for solving each problem in a sane manner?
* given a problem and an approach, can they be trusted to fill in an implementation?
If you can't answer any of these questions with a firm "yes", they're definitely a junior.
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Without supervision:
* can they be trusted to take a story and turn it into a list of one or more problems which are solvable and sensible to solve?
* given a list of problems, can they be trusted to select appropriate tools for solving each problem in a sane manner?
* given a problem and an approach, can they be trusted to fill in an implementation?
If you can't answer any of these questions with a firm "yes", they're definitely a junior.