[room271]

Something that I think gets missed often from these discussions is the idea of different definitions of 'senior' in different contexts. If you're working at Google on search algorithms, it doesn't matter how good a communicator you are, if you aren't technical enough to understand the work and think about how to improve it, it's not much use.

Conversely, if you're a brilliant architect but aren't great at being very pragmatic and hacking stuff out, you might not add much value to a lot of smaller webshops.

So someone who would qualify as senior in one place, wouldn't be very effective elsewhere.

And as developers, we can try and identify our own interests and skills and find work that fits these.