What Makes a Senior Software Developer?

Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by xamuel on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:19PM (#13155239)

An intermediate developer knows how to abstract things.

A senior knows when not to.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by rjain15 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:00PM (#13155416)

:) what about principal developers.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by nowbacktowork on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:06PM (#13155453)

They build frameworks. ;)

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by deepaksurti on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:15PM (#13155488)

And they also know when not to build frameworks :-)

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by kabdib on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:20PM (#13155510)

Principal devs are about scope, too. So they convince other people not to build frameworks.

"What are you doing? Stop stress-testing your interface compiler and write some code!" :-)

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by agildehaus on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:04PM (#13155442)

I do hope that's not the only requirement.

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