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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by lostboys67 on Monday December 12, 2016 @06:22AM (#13157280)
By that definition I should have been a senior dev when I was 22 in my first job
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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by lostcolony on Monday December 12, 2016 @08:34AM (#13157903)
Well, there's also a difference between "able to solve a problem" and "able to solve a problem correctly, in ways that won't cause future pain". The latter one is the only one that can be trusted to work on a problem themselves.

That said, it's totally possible you were there, yes. The pacing of promotions vs the abilities needed for them are not always correlated appropriately.

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Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer? by user5994461 on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:47PM (#13160629)
Some people are senior when they are 22. Some people are senior when they are 44. Some people are never senior.

Age is not a good predictor.

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