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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by mooreds on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:51AM (#36905542)
Hahah, It's the old story of the elephant and the blind men. There are so many ways to be a senior engineer, and it is, in my experience, very company dependent.

I wrote a blog post about it: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812 which got some great HN discussion a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20485006

tl;dr: being a senior engineer at a startup is different than at a consulting company is different than at a large retail firm is different than at a FAANG.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by scarface_74 on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:45AM (#36906008)
And my experience outside of the large tech companies is that titles are usually meaningless and don’t give you any signal when looking at applicants.
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