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Many senior devs over the last decade have been created by boot camps. With the recent lay offs the over supply is becoming more apparent. It is now really easy to hire senior python devs.

Arguably python is so easy that junior devs aren't that far off from senior devs.

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Sorry but this is nonsense. Juniors can absolutely make a huge mess in python if let to their own devices. You seem to confuse the knowledge of syntax and language features with actual experience in designing software.

Let me spell it out. A junior dev is 1 or 2 years of experience away from a senior dev for python.

For C++ it takes probably 4 or 5 years.

This is not nonsense. This is real.

Being a "senior dev" is a lot more than just language familiarity.

If we're just talking about the python stack arguably there's not much else on top of it. You get the extra stuff through osmosis in the same 1 - 2 years. The applications for python aren't wide ranging enough to include much else unless you're thinking about data science and ML stuff.

I guess it depends on your definition of "senior", but I don't see why language choice should affect it this much, given that much of what makes seniors senior is not knowledge of specific tech, but experience with software engineering as a process.

Purely Python devs, maybe.

Start asking questions about Linux, or networking, or security, you won’t find many that can answer.

This^ is true. Arguably though the majority of web development doesn't involve the stuff you mention. Developers simply work within a framework. This Linux stuff is relegated to specialists... devops or security engineers.

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