Re:Ask HN: Hiring managers, which type of engineer is hardes...
by rmk on Thursday February 10, 2022 @01:46PM
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The definition of "Senior" has now changed to "has > 5 years of experience". Combine this with the tendency of people to move every two years (because companies rarely keep up with the market), and you can see that "Senior" casts a wide net. It essentially includes people who may have seen maybe one major iteration of a product, perhaps none. In my opinion, that basically translates to a junior.
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Re:Ask HN: Hiring managers, which type of engineer is hardes...
by rocgf on Thursday February 10, 2022 @02:01PM
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Well, that is a highly subjective opinion.
As with everything, moving every 2 years has pros and cons. The flip side of what you said is that a person who spent >5 years at the same company has only really seen a limited number of problems, methodologies, technology stack. And that could also count as "junior", right?