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Re:The $150k Solution by rwolf on Sunday December 11, 2011 @09:45PM (#3342014)
On a tangent, does it really take 15 years before you can start tossing about the phrase "senior"? The only job ads I see asking for that kind of time appear to be aerospace/government, so I'm curious if it's just the startup bubble making me think 7 years is fine?
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Re:The $150k Solution by brianm on Sunday December 11, 2011 @10:20PM (#3342102)
To have "senior" appended to your title, no -- that is basically nothing, and means as much.

To be a genuinely "senior developer | engineer | programmer" in the eyes of others it probably takes at least 15 to 20 years of experience building and running things. Not all of that needs to be professional - writing door games in high school counts.

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Re:The $150k Solution by jarek on Sunday December 11, 2011 @09:53PM (#3342032)
In digital agency world "senior" is usually two to four years.
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