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by stefanos82 962 days ago
I smell marketing BS to promote his newsletter...

I have been dealing with computers since August 2000 and have never called myself "senior", even though at various interviews I went through for potential hiring, the HR and / or their managers, even one CEO said my qualifications aligned with those of a very experienced senior developer or software engineering which left me both speechless and baffling...me, senior? No way...
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icedchai 962 days ago
You are probably senior (or higher) after over 2 decades of experience. Why do you think otherwise?
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stefanos82 961 days ago
I've just saw the replies; oops!; my bad!

The reason is simple: I went for junior positions because the only web development professional experience I have is a 2-year web developer dealing with SEO stuff back in 2006 until 2008.

Now on a personal level, that's another story; I have done multiple NDA-ed projects which I could not share with them, unfortunately :/

The main "excuse" I went for junior positions is so I can enter the market and acquire what tech stack and tools companies use, in contrast to what I personally use to deliver a project.

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icedchai 960 days ago
You can't describe, in vague terms, what you did on your NDA-ed projects? I don't believe it.
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stefanos82 960 days ago
I did describe to them what I have implemented, explained the logic behind it, but they wanted to see the actual source code which I could not share for legal reasons as I have stated (NDA).

Feel free to believe whatever you like, no worries.

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icedchai 960 days ago
In 25 years I’ve never been in an interview where I was asked to share source code from a previous project. What you described seems unusual.
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MPSimmons 962 days ago
Here's a question that I have learned to ask myself whenever I am in that situation:

"Okay, I don't feel like a $whatever. What knowledge, skills, or abilities would I need to have to to be considered that thing?"

If you can't answer, then maybe you are the $whatever role here.

or maybe

"Would I consider someone else with my experience, skillset, and abilities to be $whatever?"

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