| So to make things clear: A junior is an engineer that has less than 2-3 years experience professionally, and about the same time building and learning how to code by themself on their spare time.
An Intermediate engineer is a Junior engineer with a good attitude - that says: I am still earning, and I am humble, and I listen more than I talk.
A Senior Engineer Has 10+ years of experience coding, and developing solutions.
He has navigated all the corporate BS, politics, and quit several teams of arrogant Junior con artists, or poor project managers - and is tired of all this BS. A real Senior engineer can code the entire solution by himself in 6 months , instead of a team of 5 juniors over 2 years.
A real senior engineer - worth 10x the salary of a junior, and at least 5 time the one of his direct supervisor - for one reason: You can remove everyone in the product team that doesn't have at least 5 years of experience developing code. And you will have better results at delivering your product. In your case, you probably will end up with zero employee. Now how much money are you offering this Senior engineer?
Will you pay him/her the equivalent of the whole team you just fired? Or just advertise a "competitive (LMAO) " 170k$ package with amazing bonuses... Which is like what.... only 40% more than the Junior that costs more time than it actually saves? Maybe start respecting what it means to be a performant senior engineer - Most of them died of depression, burnout - or jumped in the management wagon - because they were too tired of corporate BS and saw no points in even remotely trying to deliver technical solution in an environment where they don't have decision power - while at the same time - nobody in the hierarchy above (and under them) slightly understand the blueprints. When you realize the value of this rare person, you can think of multiplying the salary package by at least 3. Then, you can do your interview rounds. The heck! if I ever want to work in a tech team again - that either will be at a market salary (understand getting paid 5 times less than what I technically worth) for an ethical projects - which is rewarding for my soul and self respect - OR - I will get a 500k$/y for a basic coder job at Google/FB/etc. Maybe you are not looking for a senior engineer, maybe you are looking for an intermediate one. If you come to hire a senior engineer at that salary, be warned: he's not a senior. |