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In my company, we can get "Senior Developer" title after 3 to 4 year experience.

What your current title?

In our industry traditional titles are exhausted so early so here's localized quantification [0] (on a lighter note, no disrespect to OP or anyone). I'm in KSD title range.

0: Kilo senior developor (min 10 years) mega senior developer (min 20 years) giga senior developer (min 30 years) tera senior developer (min 40 years) peta senior developer (min 50 years) exa senior developer (min 60 years) zeta senior developer (min 70 years)

Real senior developers with lots of experience are usually shown the finger in our industry. There’s no such title to reflect 57 years of experience; i’ve heard it unofficially refered as baggage

Yeah, your titles become more amazing until around 40 years of age, then they start degrading again.

Of course, if you stay where you are your salary doesn’t, so :/

Sadly that is a very common situation. Thus even more fitting to celebrate those who are still working, learning and enjoying their programming careers.

I'm a young pup compared to the OP - started programming in 1973 (unless you count the DigiComp I..) My children had a license plate frame made for me that has has my current title (at least around the family): Granddaddo, Gerihacktrics Specialist! (At work I'm currently a Principal Software Engineer. Last gig, I was Senior Principal. Would be fun to make Fellow one of these days.)

My current title is Director of Analytics Innovation. But I am an individual contributor - I don't have anyone reporting to me.

Senior Citizen Developer

boo

methusalem, god of code :-)

In French (I work in France), sénior (senior) sounds similar to seigneur (lord), so I use this to my advantage.

Jurassic Developer (with all the respect).

Senior^19 Developer.

Senior Senior Developer

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