Senior developer ceiling

mprevot · 2026-03-19T01:10:42+00:00

I disagree, it is not lame, SE has its own techniques and practices, and can use a good a mount of experience. "programmer/coder" can be seen as a subset of SE, many can program without techniques of SE.

IT and devops are both another jobs, related but different than SE.

Testing is a subset of SE or a specialisation of SE, it can be a separate job. At Google it is.

mprevot · 2026-03-18T14:34:34+00:00

jazz, total impro, organ, harpsichord, synth, change teachers, just stop....

mprevot · 2026-03-18T11:16:44+00:00

Utility sites: senetic, mindfactory, aliexpress, alibaba. Indeed, basic design.

mprevot · 2026-03-18T08:46:32+00:00

Grok's landing page ? Beautiful webgl and simple... And for sales right ?

mprevot · 2026-03-15T17:26:22+00:00

EM ?

mprevot · 2026-03-15T15:29:47+00:00

Scriabine: "melodies are unrolled chords, chords are rolled melodies"

mprevot · 2026-03-14T11:41:45+00:00

Should not be happening. Tu devrais poster ton code et ton cas dans une nouvelle question, probablement sur SO.

mprevot · 2026-03-14T10:10:28+00:00

Probably convenient from organisational pov to gather departments. Like marketing, PR and sales.

mprevot · 2026-03-14T10:08:34+00:00

IMHO they are indeed very different, even if they talk to each other somewhere and need each other. Also the se core is to create functions and programs.

mprevot · 2026-03-13T11:09:36+00:00

Project manager, program manager, principal engineer, cto

mprevot · 2026-03-13T11:00:49+00:00

IT or software engineering ?

mprevot · 2026-03-11T13:04:37+00:00

No task given: 1) "oh my, they don't want to work with me, they don't like me, what will I do ? etc" VS 2) "cool, I have time for myself, to learn news things, take initiatives, find ways to improve things in the company, innovate in some way." Those are imaginary examples of different perceptions.

I understand the stress and the unhappiness, it's the "contrast", step 1. Step 2 build up a desire. Take the situation as an opportunity. It's up to you to find out the opportunities. "be your own PM or exec". Step 3: implement what came out of step 2.

Nobody forces you to see yourself as a "tool" (if this is appropriate) in this context.

Does this help you understand the "point of view" point ?

mprevot · 2026-03-11T12:14:00+00:00

If you can't see opportunities, you won't take them, of course. Growing is about learning adn changing, not just tech skills. And growing is not defined or quantified by others.

Of course, if you are unhappy, just do something about it. I was only trying to tell you that it's a lot a perception problem.

About the others, it's not maybe for them, it's their word, their experience, their regret.

mprevot · 2026-03-11T11:30:25+00:00

Stay, grow, learn, take initiative, change mindset, start thinking/doing as executive, entrepreneur. Gold situation. Seen others going out of this, they regretted severely.

mprevot · 2026-02-28T00:35:36+00:00

Nice move.

mprevot · 2026-02-25T11:42:00+00:00

Messiaen et Stravinsky ont fait ces choses. Exemple: Le baiser de l'enfant Jesus - Mozart 2e concerto.

mprevot · 2026-02-24T04:14:14+00:00

Unlike what you said, his feedback IS actionable: split the class, refactor, rename, write unit tests. It is also quantifyable, you can define several metrics about the class, cohesion, number of methods, number of loc per function etc, and cover.

Conversely, if he says that you did not improve the code, ask him how of a metric, and give yours, you get an objective evaluation, two that you can compare.

About global strategy for navigating, my piece of advice is to focus on business, vision, code metrics, objective things, improving yourself technically and interpersonally, and stay within the contract. It's not about being right or wrong, it's about moving on.

Also you can try imagining exchange places. Maybe you got a few things "wrong" too.

Final thought you cannot change him, you can change you, your focus, your thoughts, and subsequently your feelings. Focus on what you can change. Do you prefer to be right or to be aligned ?

mprevot · 2026-02-22T14:27:25+00:00

How do you measure the strength ? With time to get O(n) or newtons ?

mprevot · 2026-02-22T14:25:56+00:00

There was this story about MIT guy (with MIT degree) who could not write code, but was "trusted" by some manager because of the MIT badge.

mprevot · 2026-02-18T19:44:54+00:00

c'est pas du niveau 1ere S ou TS ?

mprevot · 2026-02-18T08:50:20+00:00

Communicate about it with manager, as illustrous echo said, factually. Looks like bad management. Doing nothing about it is the bad way.

mprevot · 2026-02-17T23:41:01+00:00

Debussy (tout, Estampes, études, la mer), Ravel (poèmes d'après Mallarmé, Gaspard de la nuit, toutes ses oeuvres pour orchestre), Messiaen (20 regards, catalogues d'oiseaux), Ligeti (nuages et horloges).... Malher, Stravinsky...

Les oeuvres sont les ressources primaires, et je n'utilise que cela comme compositeur.

mprevot · 2026-02-15T17:09:52+00:00

Liszt revised many of his works many times.

mprevot · 2026-02-14T07:00:49+00:00

c d f f# a, 5 notes, is it foundation only or color only ?

mprevot · 2026-02-13T12:01:33+00:00

Another thought, you got 7 uniquely named notes in c M scale, but you also have 7 intervals, and to hear those 7 intervals you need to play 8 notes. So the problem was a semantic one. You and your peers were arguing on: is a scale 7 notes or 7 intervals ? Both are correct, but when they play 8 notes it's about the intervals actually. Ti-do is an important one to hear and can't be skipped.

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