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Ask HN: Do senior Node.js developers actually exist?

by SergeyDruid on 5/7/15, 8:33 PM with 9 comments

The title says it all, can someone good at using a relative new technology be considered "senior" at it on some point?

  • by angersock on 5/7/15, 8:35 PM

    I really hate the framing here...there are senior devs who use NodeJS.

    It's not like being a senior dev in language or framework A magically means you're a complete and hopeless noob the second you switch.

    Sure, you'll have rough patches, but being a good senior dev specifically implies that you know yourself well enough to handle such transitions.

  • by theaccordance on 5/7/15, 10:07 PM

    Yes they do. Generally they're not considered senior because they have X years specifically dedicated to Node.js, but instead they have X years of proven development experience with the last 2+ focused on Node.js.

  • by akbar501 on 5/8/15, 6:09 AM

    Short answer: Yes

    Long answer: Yes. There are very senior engineers where JavaScript/Node.js is just one, of many, languages/runtimes that (s)he works with.

  • by albrtpro on 5/8/15, 12:08 AM

    It depends on the amount of things and deepness the developer has actually experienced/seen/solved/set up with that particular framework. I wouldn't assume someone is a senior only based on the years of experience. I've interviewed candidates with 5+ years PHP who are still lacking basic knowledge to be a senior.

    Start with: what does senior mean for me and my company?

  • by twunde on 5/9/15, 4:25 AM

    There are developers that have 4-5 years of node. Most senior nodejs developers have previous experience working with different language(s)

  • by TheM00se on 5/7/15, 9:40 PM

    Node.JS really hasen't been around that long for there to be the super senior people unlike Java, C++, C.

  • by anon3_ on 5/8/15, 12:59 AM