Who is a Senior Developer, Anyway?

One of the most often questions I get is "How to become a senior developer". So let's talk about it.
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[@narayanramchandani4323]

Nice work Povilas, love the thinking around taking ownership and it's absolutely true. One word of caution to all developers: make sure you do your due diligence to assess and document the options and get buy-in before taking a significant action. Most of all, thinking clearly on behalf of the business priorities is a good guide to such decision making.

[@FernandoMohamed9]

Thank you sir , you're such an inspiring mentor

[@edphogi5513]

this topic was head on! i was also on my way of performing as senior developer, and always keep on asking my next task. this is an opener for me. thanks povilas!

[@92stathis]

Nice analysis and examination! Describes the real world image for senior devs. Also the advice in the end although feels intuitive, it is really helpful and guides me to the right path. Thanks !

[@dalpatsinghpurohit]

Thats a really good video from various perspectives. I think unrelated topic but can you make on video about CEO stuff. What skiils required, the problems they deal with on daily basis and stuff like that. Would be really great.

[@LaravelDaily]

Not sure if I could then call this channel a channel for developers :)

[@bernardinyang2145]

@@LaravelDaily but we have developers as CEO...

[@melvinware6955]

Thanks for the tips, very helpful

[@oleksiyraiu7190]

This is also true in my Drupal community. Though, the term "senior" is often applied in terms of experience and knowledge of adjacent fields - front end, security, some dev ops, architecture, etc. - like you mentioned in a previous video about this topic.

[@javiershaka]

I like this type of format, something that is not only code but also important issues in the development world, and you are very right in some points that you mention about how they are called senior developer and that it is from a person who has years of experience on it, but these formats can be improved so that they reach many more people, something we do a lot in a community server of Spanish-speaking programmers (that's why my English washa washeado) is to debate about these issues since there are different points of views and perseptions, I think something like that for this type of videos would come in handy, well as everything is one more opinion of the lot as who says.

[@keiser3146]

Agree with all the stuff. Thanks for this🙏

[@emil-kirilov]

Great content!

[@shdlip8935]

Thank you for all this great content. Have a nice day & Regards from Germany!

[@hosseinkhirabadi1933]

thank you

[@Bykv78]

Very well described.

[@jeffbee6090]

GREAT insight! thanks!

[@SaiyanJin85]

I believe a very decent coding skill is the minimum but definitely required to call someone senior. From there handling more responsibilities and taking more critical decisions is the next step

[@umarbabajidda9664]

I totally agree with you Povila. However, in my case, I just woke up one morning, had a nice cup of coffee and decided to myself "from this day on I shall be called a senior dev". After which I opened my CV on Microsoft Word and edited it. Saved as PDF. Senior Developer. Just like that.

[@LaravelDaily]

Cool! And how's it going for you since then? Found new opportunities as a senior?

[@deepkarmakar]

That's a wonderful explaination 😀😀😀

[@ariadataco6005]

Thanks Again.

[@MrPiulres]

You are awesome! 😉

[@mayank_upadhyay_19]

Thankyou ❤️🙏

[@fcolecumberri]

I always dislike this idea of junior/senior aproach to experience, I have worked on web development, robotics, IoT, linux servers, etc. (actually I started on web development to make user interfaces to operate robots). In my experience any good project needs experience in more than one area so the lead positions need to know some of everything but no one is a senior on every area while also no one is a junior on every area (at least not on a lead position).

[@warrenarnold]

I thought it was a polite way of calling old folks at work, didn't know it was a real thing😅😂 software industry is just different

[@ariadataco6005]

so DevOps is one of main skills to be a senior developer

[@LaravelDaily]

That's if your company doesn't have separate devops people/department. So again, it all depends on the company.

[@MohamedAhmed-uu6vg]

Hi, thanks for this video, what are the topics in laravel that can I study deeper to become a technical senior engineer give us examples and recommend videos or tutorials for that topics

[@LaravelDaily]

I've prepared the roadmap for that: github.com/LaravelDaily/Laravel-Roadmap-Learning-Path

[@MohamedAhmed-uu6vg]

@@LaravelDaily Thanks very much

[@Thotsuya]

Hi, how do laravel scopes work? I mean, under the hood, how laravel "transforms" this sentence "scopeActive" into Model::active()? Don't know if you have covered this in a video, if not, i think would be a great topic

[@LaravelDaily]

I don't really plan to discuss Laravel internals and how the framework works inside, it's all public in the framework code, you just dive deep into it, search for "scope" in the laravel/framework repository and you will get to these: - github.com/laravel/framework/blob/277c2fbd0cebd2cb194807654d870f4040e288c0/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Scope.php - github.com/laravel/framework/blob/11387ec9b12703fdaef6013fd9e7143594b5d91a/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Concerns/QueriesRelationships.php

[@SahilSharma-ws1oz]

NEED VIDEO ON ALL EXTENSION U USE IN VS CODE .... PLEASE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🥺

[@LaravelDaily]

I don't use vs code, I use phpstorm

[@SahilSharma-ws1oz]

@@LaravelDaily okk sir any extensions u suggest

[@tarangpanchal4424]

You have just cleared vision for being a senior developer. since till now we heard all this stuff like CTO, CO, etc.. but now its much more cleared. Note: When you have a year of experience don't take task without asking manager for be a senior or else manager will give you 🤜 😂😂

[@LaravelDaily]

Depends on the manager and on the task :)

[@iamriwash7943]

Come one day in live ??? Let's talk live ???

[@LaravelDaily]

I don't like the additional pressure of talking live, I'm much more comfortable when I'm prepared upfront on the topic. Also, with a newborn son, I have no idea when I can go live and for how long, so impossible to plan.

[@iamriwash7943]

@@LaravelDaily thanks for Ur awesome videos❤️❤️❤️