Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer

Re:Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:50AM (#24398750)

Honestly I've got ten years of experience by now but I have no clue what "level" of seniority I would be at, because I've never worked at a company that had "levels"; you had roles like front/back-end developer, maybe architect, but not really any formal gradations in between. Pay differences maybe, and skill levels, but those were never formalized.

Is there an online test or something where you can "gauge" what tier you'd end up in a bigger company that has tiers like that? I'm not convinced I'd end up anywhere at the top because I lack things like knowledge about compilers or algorithms, things I just don't need to know in my day job.

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Re:Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer by ThrowawayR2 on Monday September 07, 2020 @11:45AM (#24400174)

Large tech companies usually have a career ladder that describes the expectations that come with a particular job level / title. Most aren't published externally but they look something like this example: https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/career-path-of-a-pro...

[EDIT] Here's a slightly more detailed example from Thumbtack: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ACBs-crUHnqf1wANUQw... They can get much more complex than this though at the really big tech companies.

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