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Discussion on: How to become a senior developer?

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Sebastian Vargr

Senior, adjective

  • of or for older or more experienced people.

Both age/time spent and experience are factors in the definition.

We really need another word to use for "very experienced with mentoring skills", since that is what most people mean in developer context, the duality of "senior" makes for too much confusion.

Then perhaps we would not need articles to explain and debate what senior means' to them. :D

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Ezell Frazier

Does everything have to be defined in a literal sense? Seems like a great way to miss the point.

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Sebastian Vargr • Edited

If we leave things up to interpretation then people are ultimately gonna disagree what things mean, which then leads to problems in my experience.

In the end this a rather benign problem relatively speaking imho, but a problem none the less. :)

fx. when a none teck person are looking for X type of developer, but by X they really mean Y, and the person reading it understands it as Z.