The 4 Types of Senior Engineers

[text] The Proud Parent Half your manager half your senior Designed the codebase Will always answer your question but only after a 5 minute on the motivations of a now rebuilt module from years ago l remember when we had to do that process in the AWS console with just a trackpad uphill both ways Tough during code review but genuinely happy to see you ship new features to the system The Job Security Maximizer Ohh that Sorry totally forgot all about the code wrote a month ago Tells you to ask someone else for the simplest question Has dozens of pages of private notes READMEs all read initial commit Have you thought about adding an abstracter to this abstraction With that we can decouple the coupler from the universe The Linker r s Always sends you a link when you ask a question sometimes without any other words Look at this Thinks you dont know standard documentation exists Posts medium articles in the main channel doesnt read them Never reviews code First stack overflow result The Big Chiller Been around for years knows the entire codebase Friends with the CTO Shows you the exact line of code that causes your bug within 5 minutes They last shipped a commit a couple months ago you think Always approves your PRs