You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project

Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by andyjohnson0 on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:48PM (#43082048)

As a senior engineer your job is to take on the unglamorous hard problems, both technical and organisational, that are holding the team back. Doing this, and being seen to do it, early-on in your time with an employer will be somewhere between appreciated and expected.

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by o_m on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:03PM (#43082215)

If you do this you should also be good at story telling. Not working on the new things, but making sure the core business running, is often times looked down upon in my experience. Most leaders will see the greenfield project move fast and wonder why the established and "complete" software moves slower.

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by andyjohnson0 on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:15PM (#43082909)

Yes, thats a very good point. And one that I learned to my cost in a previous job.

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