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The amount of inflationary BS on "senior engineer" resumes I've read when hiring is astounding. 5 years of this, 4 years of that, 5 frameworks, 3 languages, the whole AWS alphabet soup in the toolbox.

But then, 95% of them can't fizzbuzz.



The more senior I've gotten, the more I've removed from my resume. I used to stuff it with everything I had learned over the years. But my real profession is just "software engineer." You give me a language and a problem, and let me figure out the rest.


Hire in the DC area -- "Senior Engineer" is nothing more than a title that is used to justify a higher billing rate from the government...

...and they can't write code to count up in increments of five in python.




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