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by localghost3000 961 days ago
I think you can certainly get the _title_ of senior in that timeline. IMO to truly be senior you need to have built a maintained a system for a few years and had to live with your earlier decisions. Also it helps to have some variety of experience. If you’ve only ever done microservices and dynamodb you’re gonna have a rough go with a monolith/rdbms.
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This. You live through your mistake after 2 years, so you should stay at one place for roughly 3+ to pay the price.

I always wondered if that was also strong reason for 2 years career jumps in software

I guess it is when you see that everyone but you is getting promoted.