Though years of working in plenty of companies, interviewing for those companies and being interviewed for dozens more, I am totally sure there is no universal definition of a senior developer.
True, plenty of job postings will define the role as X+ years and knowledge of every tech the team has ever touched.
Some even require a person to be a kind of one-man-army, capable of leading the team, communicate the business requirements between stakeholders and the team, architect the whole distributed system infrastructure and automate deployments.
Few of the companies I have worked with would gladly promote a person with 3+ yrs of experience and a solid skill in the project tech stack to senior. My current company has requirements so high that senior position is easily comparable to lead dev of those others.
I guess the more or less right definition comes from team and company needs at that very same moment a senior developer is needed. Which you never know before that moment has come.
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Though years of working in plenty of companies, interviewing for those companies and being interviewed for dozens more, I am totally sure there is no universal definition of a senior developer.
True, plenty of job postings will define the role as X+ years and knowledge of every tech the team has ever touched.
Some even require a person to be a kind of one-man-army, capable of leading the team, communicate the business requirements between stakeholders and the team, architect the whole distributed system infrastructure and automate deployments.
Few of the companies I have worked with would gladly promote a person with 3+ yrs of experience and a solid skill in the project tech stack to senior. My current company has requirements so high that senior position is easily comparable to lead dev of those others.
I guess the more or less right definition comes from team and company needs at that very same moment a senior developer is needed. Which you never know before that moment has come.