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>I had about 3 years of professional freelancing and contract experience and a handful of side projects. I have a reasonably active Github account with a couple of open source projects. I even sometimes write code related blog posts and put them on the internet where nobody ever reads them.

>I probably came across as your average “better than junior but not quite senior” developer.

Man, I hope you're just being modest otherwise that's bad news for me.

[wheaties]

3yrs experience is not senior. He's right on the money there.

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I mean, that damn near fits the bill for me last year when I left my first job and was looking for a mid level position. 3 years professional experience, had been doing some limited freelancing/consulting in that time, and for a couple years before that. Even have a blog post where I log pain-in-the-ass problems and the solutions to them. Titles are a giant fog since every company has their own system, but I view Junior X as someone with no experience beyond maybe an internship, but your mileage will vary. That's how it's been at the places I interviewed/talked to back then, and right now. Having 3 years good experience puts you on the bottom rung of middle tier.