I’ve seen people call themselves “senior” after 3 years on the job, other become CTOs in the same time, and others still have a senior title after 20(!) years in the industry yet have a fuckton of technical experience.

I’ve heard that they are all just titles and opinions from “if you don’t have the technical skill you can’t call yourself a senior”, to “senior and staff are just a feeling, principal is the actual senior” and “staff? above senior? we call that manager”.

What’s your story? Is there a ladder? Do you feel like you belong on it? Where are you on it? Does it make sense? Did you see major bumps in salary? Did titles count at all?

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some people like myself also just want to stay as a senior dev. Senior dev is a valid terminal position IMO. It pays a sht load already so it’s not like I need way more money. If you’re goal is to literally maximize money and nothing else then yeah the obvious route is to transition to EM. But I would be miserable if I don’t get to write code at my job so I’m sacrificing a bit of money for way more happiness and fulfillment on the job.