50 words of youthful arrogance. Seniority is not so one dimensional. In addition to the hard skills (algorithms, patterns, best practices, etc) there are also soft skills:
1. Managing people
2. Managing time
3. Office politics
4. Understanding the big picture (beyond the technology)
5. Perspective
I could go on but would rather see others contribute here.
You are an idiot. Resolved.
would be curious to know why you find the author's position idiotic? Certainly a year of experience at two different companies may amount to significantly different degree of added experience. Say a year's experience of 3rd engineer at Stripe vs 12347th engineer at Cisco.