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I think you overestimate the amount of senior engineers... even at the extreme end of top-tier big tech, only around 30% can be considered senior. Staff enginee
by jaen 20d ago
I think you overestimate the amount of senior engineers... even at the extreme end of top-tier big tech, only around 30% can be considered senior. Staff engineers who regularly think at the level GP talks about are 5-10%.
Everywhere else the percentages are quite a bit lower still (if judged by the same standards).
- therealdrag0 20d agoYa I was very hand wavy. Though in my experience a lot of smaller shops have a higher percent of seniors than big tech. And I don’t know how much smaller shops there are, so I rounded up. Also smaller shops depend more on this well rounded thinking.