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by danjaouen 4467 days ago
To me, the most important distinction between a "junior" and a "senior" developer is that a senior developer isn't afraid to work with and maintain legacy code.

When I first started out, I was obsessed with only using the latest and greatest technologies, but I've come to realize over the course of my career that this is simply infeasible for many organizations.

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To you. When I first started, I wasn't afraid of maintaining legacy code at all. It's an entirely different set of things that made me go from "junior" to "less junior".