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What was your experience climbing the career ladder in tech?
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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My first tech job ever, I was a senior developer after 4 years because I was the primary for a lot of projects.
When I jumped to another job, I kept my salary but they used levels. So I wasn't "technically" a senior there, my level was higher than regular devs, but lower than all the experienced devs.
Then I jumped jobs again, higher salary and then I became a Individual Contributor. IC are also ranked in levels. So I was still higher than regular devs, but I was not a senior IC.
That for some reason lead be back to team lead, and now I run a entire department of 30 people. I'm still not a senior dev officially. I'm dept lead, which means I'm mostly organizing people and code, have team leads report back to me and jumping into solve critical issues.
I've been programming for almost 14+ years? So I guess I'm a senior developer, even if I was only given that title in my first job.