[throwaway648]

> I also don't understand why the candidate with 10 years of industry experience decided to move forward with interviewing after being told it was for an SDE1 position.

| given the fact that I wasn’t too efficient with Java (it was not the primary tool in my past experience)

Maybe because his 10 years didn’t give him the relevant knowledge? Also, his attitudes sends a clear ”I’m a junior” message, so SDE1 might have been right call.

[agoldis]

< Also, his attitudes sends a clear ”I’m a junior” message, so SDE1 might have been right call.

Please explain. I don't mind to be called "junior" or whatever title you stick on me, but what is "junior attitude"?

[throwaway648]

For one, you accepted a junior position. Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior.

Then you seemed to be surprised by the issues, again showing you lacked the experience of a senior. I feel you got good guidance but it feels it was not well received.

The away team experience also felt a bit juniory. Your requests we not priotorized high enough but you didn’t find the tools or means to go around it. Understanding their needs and life in general would be an indication of seniority.

Finally, I think it takes at least a year to see how you are able to cope and progress. It takes time and effort to make any changes in a huge corporation.

In the end, I think that you would not have enjoyed yourself working in that environment so you made the right call. It takes certain character traits to be able to enjoy navigating and gaming such corporate culture.

Source: ex enterpreneur with two decades of experience, atm employed in a >100k employee corporation and loving it.

[agoldis]

Reading your comment I see a fundamental problem: you treat people... as A or as B, but not as a reasonable person, a peer and a colleague.

> Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior.

no, no.... treated like a human and a professional :)

[ALittleLight]

In my experience junior people need to be told what the problem is and directed what to do. Seniors tend to bring up the problems along with potential options.

That's one difference in attitude I can think of.