[tamarind8]

> This is my best guess, based on my own experience of being a manager.

So, as a manager. How would you feel if someone interviewed you, and hired you based on your years of experience as a manager, then suddenly started acting like you have no experience at all? How would you handle that?

[blowski]

How would I feel? I’d be annoyed! Undermined. Why would they hire me and then belittle me with tasks someone with half my experience could do?

How would I handle it? There are two answers to that.

The first is “I’d quit and go and get a new job”. I’d assume they were idiots who didn’t know how to run a software company. I’ve done this in the past.

The second is “I’d figure out why they feel like that and do something about it”. Seniority is set to zero when you join a new company, and you build it by working well over time. If you’re smashing out junior tasks every day for two weeks, discuss it in retro and 1:1. This is where personal growth comes from and shows true seniority.