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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by emodendroket on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:54PM (#16915985)
> Senior positions take longer than junior. There may be other factors in any individual case, but just as a general rule, the more experience you have, the longer it takes to get hired. This may relate to...

I recently read a thread on Reddit with people making the exact opposite complaint -- that senior developers just didn't understand how hard it is to find a junior position now.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by rejschaap on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:10AM (#16920109)
People with very little experience have trouble finding jobs because companies don't want to train people. People with a lot of experience have trouble finding jobs because there aren't a lot of jobs that require that much experience.

Because of title inflation the people with average experience match up best with the title senior.

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