Falsehoods Jr Devs Believe Aboutr Sr Devs

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[michaelwilson]

I’m a “senior” right now and working on all of the above: debugging and refactoring mundane legacy code, architecting a cutting edge new system, reviewing random code changes from both junior and senior devs…in my experience seniority is just a function of having seen a lot of stuff and how much responsibility/expectation is put on you. It has nothing to do with being proficient in vim, or any other specific technology

[CottidaeSEA]

I thought I was a junior developer until I was told I have the most responsibilities among the developers in our company and is considered one of the top developers. Now I just have impostor syndrome.

[slxvx.b]

Ever since I joined my current company as SE3 I’ve always dreamt about Principal SE position because every PSE in our company seemed to be so good and had so many fun things to do. Since few weeks ago, I’m one of them. And you know what? Having a time to sleep felt better lol.

[MikkoRantalainen]

I think being a senior developer is not about already knowing it all. It's more about being able to consider long term side-effects of decisions you make for the project. Sometimes a quick hack is all you need, sometimes a quick hack now would bite your ass in the future and typically it's the senior developer that can tell the difference.

[alexanderjordan]

"Endless meetings"

I had a strategy meeting for an upcoming meeting, followed by a client meeting, followed by a review of the previous meeting. We scheduled another meeting in the last meeting so we could more widely discuss the topics. My calendar has an average of 3 hours of meetings a day, and of the people I've talked to, that's actually less meetings than many.

[milohoffman]

The most important thing about being "senior" is learning what you do know, and more importantly what you DONT know and where to find the answer.

[kurtmayer]

"anxiety is a you choice" - the primeagen, 2024

[nitinmadan]

I recently discovered this channel and absolutely loving it. Being a buddying Techie, learning a lot with these discussions.

[petrus]

@8:50

Juinor developers: "We're going to work with the very latest technologies! We're going to push the envelope! We're going to INNOVATE!"

Senior developers: "Praise the Omnissiah!"

[romeyjclark]

Love how every single time he asks for a zoom in or literally anything to do with editing, Flip Flips the script and is just like "Don't tell me what to do weird Technology Mustached Man-Child." Somehow this is the only YouTube Channel where there's another character, but he's hidden and we won't see him till Season 2-3. He may even be the real Villain.

[frankhaugen]

Being a senior is about responsibility, and to be an accelerator. I frequently go a week without writing code, but I probably 3x'ed my team's output by helping to find solutions or point out some obscure edge case behavior in the compiler. My best days is when I develop a testing harness, or some abstraction that will guide my colleagues' decisions on how to use messaging, (Azure Service Bus SDK is the best example of an SDK that needs to be wrapped for simplicity if you want any consistency of usage in a complex distributed system)

[svenmify]

I’ve been coding for about 35 years (started at age 7, zx spectrum), and I still don’t consider myself a senior. I don’t know if I want to be, it means I have to write proper code, and the only reason I code is because it allows me to be creative, create anything I want. Made quite a bit of money doing it too, but I want it to remain new and exciting, not something where I follow rules and guidelines.

[Anriuko]

"Many junior developers dream of working exclusively with the latest frameworks and tools."

So they finally managed to mix LSD into tap water.

[PinheiroJaime]

Your highlighting is very satisfying. ADHD approved!

[TheBeastDispenser]

Being a senior has a lot of gray area. You can have seniors that are actually overpaid jr's, you can have superhero seniors, and you can have anything in between. Where I work, Senior Software Engineer is only one step up from a Jr dev and is below Staff and Senior Staff software engineer. In other words, being a senior is not the end all be all. It's more like step 2 in your career. There are also principal engineers, architects, reliability engineers, etc. all which can feel overwhelmingly distant for any Jr./Sr. dev.

Your experience may very based on company.

[ymity]

"Absolutely I do it on purpose, I like highlighting things that way." - Senior criminal

[jeremykothe]

There are many journeys starting from Junior. This author sounds to me like he still has a lot of journeys to take. Over my career, periodically I look back at myself 2 years ago and laugh. Always be looking to make your life easier.

[wagnrd]

To me it seems the article is describing a lead developer. Not necessarily all seniors are leads. And it also seems that ThePrimeagen is not a lead developer in most of his projects. Which could explain his perceived differences.

Because yes, a lead developer is mostly doing the anoying stuff (if they don't identify as a software architect 💀). But most seniors are just part of the normal work force who do the same things as everybody else but with a bit more experience. And everybody seems to forget the inbetween: Being a normal developer. Neither junior nor senior (sometimes called professional). They do mostly the same stuff.

[abbybaby]

I watched your be a Sr dev vid, thank you for helping us understand that all these ppl are human like us even if they have a bit more experience.

[theaaron]

Flip just looking for the "the name, is the rando-agen" moment, cutting and posting