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Words are meant to communicate things through shared meaning and this is what seniority means to ~everybody else except you, so although nobody will stop you from adopting your private definition that nobody else uses, I think persistence in doing so will make you look a little silly.


The thing you're glossing over is Senior at Company A != Senior at Company B.

If your company wants to grossly inflate titles, fair enough - but your next job will then look like a demotion.

Counting someone as senior purely by a clock is also absurd. It's about knowledge, depth and breadth. A person with 3ish years of experience does not have either... we used to just call that "engineer".

But... go ahead, keep assigning recent graduates absurd titles. Inflating people's egos helps keep salaries low.


"Words are meant to communicate things through shared meaning and this is what seniority means to ~everybody else except you"

Apparently you need one more counterexample? I certainly do not think one can be considered senior after 3-4 years as well.

But I would also be curious, how you would then call someone with 15 years, or oh my, 25 years of experience?


How is this something that no one else thinks?

> Being a couple years out of college is not experienced.




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