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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

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263 points mooreds | 1 comments | 30 Sep 25 03:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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0xbadcafebee ◴[30 Sep 25 04:08 UTC] No.45421797[source]▶
The gap between juniors and seniors today is really not that big. I know a lot of people with senior in their title that are closer to a junior. Have them actually read the docs for a month straight, and a junior would know more than a senior.

Also, if you really want to hire a senior, and you can't compete on pay, maybe compete by going remote? Almost all the job listings I see are for hybrid roles. Do they realize they're just throwing away all the candidates in other cities? Are hiring managers/CEOs masochists?

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1. willvarfar ◴[30 Sep 25 05:34 UTC] No.45422252[source]▶
Yeah see this all the time :(

Senior is often about time in industry not competence. A lot of 'senior' engineers are completely ineffective and seemingly unable to ever become effective. They just joined the industry a while ago and are treading water and tricking the next hiring manager that they were called 'senior' at their last job so of course they are a 'senior' now. If they aren't applying for 'staff' level jobs.

The correlation between being smart, getting things done, speeding everyone up, being trusted etc and 'seniority' is not causal :)