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0 pointssleepychu7y ago0 comments

Why are you offended? The market considers them senior...

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I spent 5+ years in the industry and felt weird calling myself senior. Just because you are a friend with CEO and he can vouch for your title doesn't make you senior.

In 2 years of experience how many serious products can you take from start to finish? In my opinion, a senior developer is a person who did this multiple times.

It's almost like calling yourself lead developer of 1 man team...

Blaiz0r7y ago

Titles are a means to categorise resource by HR.

Titles merely offer a bracket of salary that a resource can have, once they reach the peak they either have to go up a rank or leave to get more pay.

fjsolwmv7y ago

At a bank, the salespeople and analysts are called Vice Presidents. It's just a name.

azhenley7y ago

Being Lead Developer in a one person team definitely sounds reasonable. You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities (even more so than if the team was bigger?).

jobigoud7y ago

> You are still the lead dev on the project and have to take on all the responsiblities

Except the responsibility of leading other people, on a resume this title would imply you gained that experience while in fact you didn't.

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