The Death of 'Senior'
A few years ago, “Senior Developer” meant something. Not just a pay grade, not just an internal leveling band, but a signal that you’d seen some things. Broken prod on Christmas Eve. Legacy codebases with more comments than code. Real consequences, real complexity, real context. Now? I’m seeing resumes from people three years out of university with “Senior” in their title. Not senior in years, not senior in depth—just the most experienced person on a three-person dev team at a startup that launched last quarter. ...