>" I would ABSOLUTELY avoid the term 'senior developer/programmer' at all cost.
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>"You want me to leave the forum? My, sigh, official title is "Senior Programmer/Analyst".:-)
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>Of course not!
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>I've seen so many instances where 'senior' backfires. It's sometimes based solely on tenure, and then you have the issue when another developer with twice as much technology experience comes in. Then you have the reverse, when someone comes in with that title, only because he/she had it with a past employer.
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>If your organization uses it, and everbody's cool with it, then obviously that's fine. But the original post was asking for input, and in the absence of existing titles, I think it's best to stay away from 'senior'.
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>I've been 'lead developer' multiple times in the past, and would have fought tooth-and-nail against being called senior developer.
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Kevin,

With me (since I'm the oldest), whenever someone refers to me as that, I say, "Is this another age joke?":-)