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Dunning-Kruger separating mid- and senior-level devs:

JUNIOR DEV: My code is simple and easy to understand.

MID-LEVEL DEV: My code is subtle, clever, innovative, expressive, hyper-optimized, and ingenious.

SENIOR DEV: My code is simple and easy to understand.

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Source: John Arundel, https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/1219174978748370945

But take that for what it's worth: https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/1184741088067833856

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At one job we actually had to give up on take-home challenges basically because a good, humble junior was indistinguishable from a good, clearly-thinking senior

So funny. This makes sense as the latter would be catering to an audience which includes the former.

We coined a title "señor Dev" for people who came in saying they were seniors but who's contribution was net negative over time.

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