Junior vs Mid-Level vs Senior Developer — what’s the difference? (⚡️YouTube Short)

Will Sentance makes a claim about the difference between Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior developers.

[kozchrist]

I feel like this can apply to so many more roles than just developers. Great summary!

[eleazarhernandez]

You forgot the most important thing:
Junior = no jobs

[encapsule]

so im a mid level engineer with no job. please somebody hire me, i am dying here

[orterves]

A principal engineer can take the feature they are given and then define for the team what is *actually* required, given the real business and technology context

[mirko]

Soo all my previous seniors weren't seniors, 🤯

[themuslimview]

Thanks for this. I guess I really am a senior engineer

[jorgesanf]

That's a great classification indeed

[josephchauvin]

A senior engineer takes a feature they were supposed to build and makes a better one

[natescode]

Junior = function
Mid. = module / namespace
Senior = application / project

[tanglesites]

I don’t know… I think any level can do it, each level will take longer though. This is just my opinion, I am the only developer I know and yet to land my first job. I think I can do anything you ask me too, some problems might take longer than others. I often tell my wife, I can do anything with a keyboard and monitor, all I need is time. But I am no senior.

[angelg]

Due to inflation the new Junior developer is a Mid level developer

[AdamCimarosti]

Any sufficiently smart engineer (junior or senior) can write anything, provided that they have the right technical and domain background.

A senior engineer will leverage their experience into better decision making.

A senior engineer will write less code for the same problem and have picked better compromises in the approach taken.

A senior engineer can make the right tradeoffs between faster short term delivery and long term software quality.

By having a deep understanding of their customers a senior engineer is good at assessing the business impact and risk of their software.

When having influence over more junior members, senior engineers encourage good decision making across the team.

[Dmmesserly]

The whole industry is bs. Nothing but gatekeepers

[napapt]

I have to admit that 1 of the worst things I have to deal with in a daily basis is the chaotic code structure of junior and mid level developers in my projects, and that's why I make an extra effort so that my code is self explanatory and comment it whenever it is not

[gavinpayne]

I understand the metric described as a means to provoke the importance of technical communication. But the metric for tiering engineers here is just wrong. By definition, any engineer should surpass the 'senior' level of ability outlined here. If you cannot design and impliment new features from scratch and effectively communicate then you are not an engineer. Higher levels should just be more adept at these things, and their skills should allow them to be more effective.

[fabianramirez]

Can't agree with this. A senior dev should have more than simply a soft skill (probably not what OP video meant, but it fragment is so short it makes me think that)

[trantrungnghia]

just communication? seems not enough idk