Ok, so I already asked when junior is no longer a junior..got mixed answers. Now I'd like to know what defines seniority level in your country?! Years of experience, having wide range of knowledge, great leadership skills, having boobs (joke).. ?!? But seriously, I have no clue what the standards in my country are, and internet is full of different opinions & examples that are making me wanna go cry in a corner.. o.O

Figured some answers from real people might help me get my head around this, so if it's not too much to ask fellow devs here, please answer this questions to help me grasp this better with examples..& non dev folks, you are welcome to comment too!!

A) What country are you guys from?
B) How is seniority defined there?
C) How are you placed by others?
D) If different, where would you place yourselves? Why?

++ because boobs

A) USA
B) Can you make one call and have someone fired?
C) I work in a company with 2 devs, a qa guy, then 30 people who manufacture safes and bank vaults, and 20 people who sell those safes. We are the weirdos in the corner, nobody cares what we think.
D) Working in Venice beach was nice, company had higher percentage of devs so it was ok to have nerdy conversations all day with everybody.

I have more seniority currently, but the people over me don't listen, I preferred the egalitarian attitude of the startup world.

@Alice @d4ng3r0u5 zomg! 😂😂😂😂

@gorsamp option B is quite scarry.. it has nothing to do with competance o.O

++ on rant, no new comments.. 🤔meh.. //😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@sladuled is the crying commented out? I could -- rant to change it up

@gorsamp Haha yes, that is a comment... Now this is real 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 😂😂😇

@AndSoWeCode nice, thanks for feedback!

A) UK.

B) Generally by who the boss listens to the most. Age experience etc are less important than the gift of the gab. or even more importantly results.

C) i am the Tech lead where i am now (a startup ). We have a small dev team (4 devs + 1 qa + 1 infrastructure). were pretty relaxed everyone gets to speak there mind and make suggestions etc. I just spend more times in meetings with the MD and sales/ops.

D) I'm happy with where i am now i think as long as that is the case i will stay. i had a friend who recently moved companies, he had been there for years since uni but still had not been promoted past junior and even though he was one of the best on the team at this point new hires were getting better offers, sometimes you need a clean slate. i think people still saw the "student hire" even years later, now he has no problem being taken seriously.

@NickyBones dude, you sound like me.. o.O