Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning

Re:Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning by mplewis on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:50PM (#41900515)

There was never a time in human history when Senior Software Engineer had a consistent definition. It’s fine to write a nostalgia piece about your past experiences, but this blog post doesn’t go very far beyond that.

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Re:Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning by s-lambert on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:57PM (#41900549)

And from his bio: "I've been coding professionally since 2014", that wasn't that long ago, I started around the same time and senior was definitely just as meaningless.

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Re:Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning by suzzer99 on Monday October 21, 2024 @12:03AM (#41900581)

I've been coding since 1998. Wherever I've worked, 'senior' has always just meant 'doesn't need to be supervised'.

The standard pattern is to work 2 years as a junior developer, then jump ship for a senior job and double your salary.

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