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Discussion on: How to get rid of the junior mentality

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Alain Van Hout

From the point of view of assessing other people (rather than yourself), I tend to use the term 'senior' for any developer that you can hand a problem to and be certain that it will be taken care of, i.e. I no longer have to worry about it.

Do note that 'taken care of' doesn't mean that that developer should inherently be able to solve it all on their own, but rather that they will grasp what needs to be done, and take steps to get it done, including looking up information on the web, acquiring information from other people, trying things out to see what works, keeping tabs on the requirements versus the available time and effort, and getting hands-on assistance from other people if need be.