If you are a Senior anything and being told what to do, you're not really a Senior.

Maybe that works for you, if you're in the right place getting paid the right amount, but we do ourselves a disservice when we allow this to occur.

My personal understanding was: junior: lots of tactical guidance

medium: less tactical, lots of strategic guidance

senior: no tactical, very vague strategic (normally coming from business partners).

Maybe that's just me, though.