> As the author explains above, being a senior engineer does not require a specific title. It is a mindset, an understanding reached not by years but by enlightenment.
And who is capable of recognizing enlightenment in a land where the blind lead the blind? This is an industry where novices who have been programming for 16 weeks sum total are elevated to the level of "senior engineer" for political reasons or for compensation and then, on the basis of this titling, are put on hiring committees and then considered qualified enough to judge the merits of another - who may have been a total weeb shut-in and already put in 30000 hours of obsessive programming but doesn't conform to the whitewashed, diluted, Big Bang Theory-esque cultural notions of what a geek is supposed to look like because they don't abide by Caucasian heteronormative standards of how geeks are supposed to take 30 second reels or themselves writing JavaScript in VSCode.
And who is capable of recognizing enlightenment in a land where the blind lead the blind? This is an industry where novices who have been programming for 16 weeks sum total are elevated to the level of "senior engineer" for political reasons or for compensation and then, on the basis of this titling, are put on hiring committees and then considered qualified enough to judge the merits of another - who may have been a total weeb shut-in and already put in 30000 hours of obsessive programming but doesn't conform to the whitewashed, diluted, Big Bang Theory-esque cultural notions of what a geek is supposed to look like because they don't abide by Caucasian heteronormative standards of how geeks are supposed to take 30 second reels or themselves writing JavaScript in VSCode.