>I have yet to meet a senior who is anything less than highly competent.
Where is this mythical land? Are you hiring?
Sounds like Microsoft’s naming scheme. I also found seniors there to be highly competent - but it does vary by org.
Re:Defining a Distinguished Engineer
by testpostpls on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:58PM
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Confirmation bias? Other companies may solve you use case better with context-specific titles, e.g. “directly responsible individual on X.”
Re:Defining a Distinguished Engineer
by titanomachy on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:33PM
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Yeah, some projects have explicit technical leads, they are usually the best resource but are sometimes pretty busy.
What exactly do you mean by confirmation bias here? As in, the other people on the team are just as competent but I don't find out because I only ask the seniors? It's possible. I have had some relatively unhelpful interactions with junior engineers in the past.
If I have a problem integrating with their service, I will get more useful answers from that team's "senior" or "principal" engineers than from an "engineer I" who just joined the company a year ago.
Higher titles are not given out lightly here, so they still have some usefulness. I have yet to meet a senior who is anything less than highly competent.