[michaelochurch]

At first, I liked LinkedIn because it provided some transparency into peoples' career trajectories. One could compare what one was doing at a certain age to well-known people and see if one was on a right track, or should be trading up jobs soon. It had value. There was data there. "Hey, at age X I should have title Y." Granted, it was focused around something that's total and utter bullshit (job titles and professional status) but it made it easier to decode the bullshit.

Now, though, everyone's polluting the channels with nonsense. Why would I care that Bob has 37 endorsements for "APIs"? That doesn't mean anything.

Besides, social proof is for malakas. If anyone turned me down because I didn't have enough endorsements on a website, I'd laugh that person off the fucking bricks.

[tocomment]

What are the correct titles for various ages in your opinion?

I'm trying to figure out how to advance past senior developer myself.

[michaelochurch]

I'm not sure. I think that if you want to be a pure technologist, titles don't mean as much, because anything beyond Sr. Engineer isn't standardized across companies, and if you're good at what you do, that say more than any title history.

If you want to take the management path, you should have some kind of management title by 32 and Director by 36.