This reminds me how the notion of “senior dev” in Tech Startups is somebody with 5 years experience.
Not that Microsoft has been a Startup for 30 years now, but I have the impression that such a view of were “seniority” starts in software engineering is a Silicon Valley thing.
This by the way, if it is indeed so, explains SO, SO many externally observable problems with most of their products and the frequent totally avoidable (if you have half way decent practices or even just the most basic software architecture in place) ridiculous outages.
This reminds me how the notion of “senior dev” in Tech Startups is somebody with 5 years experience.
Not that Microsoft has been a Startup for 30 years now, but I have the impression that such a view of were “seniority” starts in software engineering is a Silicon Valley thing.
This by the way, if it is indeed so, explains SO, SO many externally observable problems with most of their products and the frequent totally avoidable (if you have half way decent practices or even just the most basic software architecture in place) ridiculous outages.