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That's too bad. The senior devs I know are generally good with people: Making them better, working out differences, getting people on-board with solutions, helping one-on-one with things like code reviews and debugging sessions, writing design documents, finding and fixing bugs that aren't theirs. The list is endless. Oh, and they write code, too, generally lots of it.


I generally find that less experienced devs are the ones writing lots of code. Personally I think more and write less of it (and it usually works better).


Actually in my expeirence senior deva are the less good with people (expierenced developers with good people skills often become twch leads.

But thats really not the point I was trying to make. The point is that no senior dev is hired for or because of those qualities (at least from what I've seen)




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