The definition of “senior” is vague and subjective. When you try to say objective things such as “6-8 years to become senior”, that’s meaningless because “senior” is undefined.
Being a senior engineer at Facebook where your responsible for making sure Cat memes load more quickly, and a senior engineer for an industrial control systems company making weapons guidance systems are totally different levels of responsibility. But, job titles are often transferable and should be better regulated across the industry.
this strikes me as an unnecessarily rude dismissal of the difficulty of engineering at scale
this might sound crazy, but some people are actually just good at their jobs and will, naturally, progress quicker than others.
If FB goes down, people waste less time online[0], if a guidance system fails people may die.
[0] yes, of course there are people whose livelihood depends on cat memes, but I'm making a generic example.
Goes down yes, but what about a data breach? What if, for example, the location of a woman is mistakenly exposed to a abusive partner?
In my view the distinction between a senior software engineer and not is the ability to see how both human and software systems interact and find failure modes that others may miss.
by definition it's not true, and any sequence of thoughts that lead you to that conclusion are wrong, period.
Hey now, don’t underestimate the technical challenges inherent in weaponizing misinformation at scale.