Skills that got them promoted into Senior Developers Positions
As a developer still at an earlier stage of my career, I tend to think that more experienced junior developers and senior developers have more advanced technical skills.
Listening to one podcast for a few weeks with a senior developer who has been writing code for over 15 years. She said that
"We can't compare a beginner developer of today who has to learn several variations of JavaScript like the many frameworks and libraries among other languages with that of us who learned code back then when the industry was less evolved". She thinks that up-and-coming developers are more qualified than how they joined the job market back then.
On the other hand, senior developers were asked on a Twitter discussion to share the skills that made them get promoted into their current roles. Here are some of the common skills that were mentioned by most of them:-
Being curious when starting by asking questions, learning from mistakes, learning to work with others, and adapting your understanding to new things that come up.
Being able to understand and come up with solutions to problems quickly and a skill that is gained through training and past solutions to tough problems.
Understanding all aspects of your field to be a lead developer.
Having the ability to combine skills beyond your technical skills, i.e, soft skills, adaptability, perseverance, networking, self-awareness, independent thinking, owning the project, and being willing to learn throughout, among others.
Being able to facilitate decisions and mentor newbies.
"Junior developers don't write complex code because they can, Mid-level developers write complex code because they can and senior developers don't write complex code because they can"
Being able to understand scope and effort to be able to convey to others and break it into tasks, and ensure the job is done
Being able to rely on your experience instead of talent
Ability to:-
Write a clean clone
use object-oriented-programming, high-order functions & design patterns more often
mentor junior developers
Reuse code more often
communicate properly
Handle time management and determine a task to be prioritized
Consider your team's ability to solve the problem.
Write tests, both unit and integration tests, and determine the best tech stack for a project.
Thanks for reading through my article I hope this helps you consider growing some skills beyond the technical ones and also giving credit to Nehemiah and all those who took part in the discussion.
