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> Why? …because seniority is about responsibility, and if all you do is write good code, you’re not accepting the responsibility for anyones effort but your own.

Exactly. Ownership of a certain scope.

This came out not long ago, and I love the graphic.

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/engineering-levels-at-honeycom...



In my experience it's uncommon to tell people that "senior engineer" is a 'terminal level' because, again, this is usually not very senior at all and you might have issues attracting and retaining talent if you do that. Again, "senior engineer" is a title and although it has 'senior' in it, it is actually not that senior within the organigram of most companies.


Indeed great visualization. Definitely I'm going to show it to our future seniors.




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