How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior engineers

Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by austincheney on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:02PM (#30304762)

Looking at many job posts senior means capable of using React and capable of talking about, but not necessarily using, TypeScript. When senior sounds like faster junior I really have trouble finding what actually differentiates a senior from a junior at these organizations.

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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by vp8989 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:49AM (#30311728)

It's quite common in larger companies for "senior" to actually mean "mid-level" or "not junior".

This title inflation provides some flexibility to create a level below the new grad level, to hire people from non-traditional backgrounds who would otherwise fail a typical entry level screening but are willing to (temporarily) work for low $ to get themselves on the "engineering ladder".

It also makes new grad offers cosmetically/psychologically more competitive. All else being equal, if company A offers you "junior software engineer" and company B offers you "software engineer" you might favor the latter.

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