Where do companies draw the line between entry, mid, senior etc. level developers? In this article we explain the difference between junior and senior engineers

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As with all careers, there’s a hierarchy of levels in software engineering. Each stage comes with its own expectations, skill requirements, and salary. I’m going to try my best to break down each level; entry, junior, tech lead based on the criteria I just mentioned.

What’s The Difference Between a Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior Developer?

1. How to become an entry-level/junior engineer

Finally someone explained this to me!

Junior make shit, mid-level work, senior just blame juniors to the executives. NEXT.

I can see it’s really hard to make clear definitions between each role since each company kind of uses their own judgment. Is a senior dev in a startup going to be exactly the same as one in a huge org. I don’t know.

I’ve written about a few career paths a while ago: <a href="https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-11-11-developer-career-paths" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-11-11-developer-career-paths</a>