> Again.. we are running in circles, and this industry will never learn, because most “senior” people haven’t been around long enough.
And that likely won't change in our lifetime, given the rate of growth in demand for software: we literally can't create senior engineers fast enough for there to be enough to go around.
As an aside, I have the privilege of working with a couple of senior folks right now in my current gig, and it's pretty fucking fantastic.
The percentage of seasoned engineers is so low that 'senior' as a title often seems to stretch to "whoever is most experienced around here". That's probably fine, since people understand that experience is not reducible to that title. But this does bring to mind a metric for finding "objectively" senior engineers:
What's the biggest idea you've seen abandoned and then reinvented with a new name?
And that likely won't change in our lifetime, given the rate of growth in demand for software: we literally can't create senior engineers fast enough for there to be enough to go around.
As an aside, I have the privilege of working with a couple of senior folks right now in my current gig, and it's pretty fucking fantastic.