<story><title>Engineers suck at finding the right jobs</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes &quot;good enough&quot; code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what&apos;s left?&lt;p&gt;Personally I wouldn&apos;t feel right with a title including &quot;senior&quot; until I&apos;ve got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of &amp;#62;10. And I&apos;d still prefer not having a title. Unless the only way to increase a salary is by taking the title, which seems to be the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vampirechicken</author><text>Titles were more about pay bands then skill.&lt;p&gt;I know several hundred Vice Presidents at JP Morgan Chase.&lt;p&gt;And really, if your business card tells me that you&apos;re a Programmer/Analyst 3, then you&apos;re either doing something wrong, or you&apos;re a robot, and you probably work between Programmer/Analysts 2 and 4.</text></comment>
<story><title>Engineers suck at finding the right jobs</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes &quot;good enough&quot; code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what&apos;s left?&lt;p&gt;Personally I wouldn&apos;t feel right with a title including &quot;senior&quot; until I&apos;ve got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of &amp;#62;10. And I&apos;d still prefer not having a title. Unless the only way to increase a salary is by taking the title, which seems to be the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>On the other hand how I can differentiate myself without using &quot;senior&quot; from others developers of my age, who took this job as a result of additional course during their college time and who as result produce quite ad-hoc code without any interest in technology and what lies below job they do?&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s the only reason I am using senior in title. Because I do not agree that all 20-something devs bring same value to the team.</text></comment>