Do you have any idea how many "senior developers" I have interviewed that essentially had 1 year of experience repeated 10, 15, 20 times? Literally couldn't give me pseudocode to find the maximum integer in an array (or they initialized their temp variable to 0, so it would fail with an array of all negative numbers)? How many people in this industry get the title "senior developer" with a few years of experience?

I *want* to agree with you, but I *can't* agree with you.

Before you think I am some ogre of a hiring manager... I hire architects with a 30 minute interview and no coding test. It's super easy to tell if they are the real deal or not. Just ask "what's the hardest architecture challenge you faced and how did you overcome it?" and you'll get a great sense of their experience.

But it's super easy for someone to masquerade as a "senior developer" with a resume and experience that is accurate, yet doesn't show just how little they actually can do.

J.Ja