Hey there,
I was chatting with a group of CTO’s here in Chicago this week, and one of them made a half-joking remark that “everyone’s a ‘senior’ Javascript developer.”
The humor here is that all of us are inundated with a flood of new bootcamp grads who can’t find junior positions, so they apply to senior roles and try to upsell their experience. We understand why they do it, but we’re also not stupid — we know not everyone is a really a senior Javascript developer.
This week I wrote a bit about
the tricks we use to weed out inexperienced developers. If you're looking to hire a developer, and want to weed out some of the less experienced people I'd be interested to hear your methods.
On the other hand, if you're a junior developer looking to get hired by a startup, remember that
knowing how to code is not enough.