Senior Engineers

“Turns out that just having, having done a lot of reps and having seen a lot of those just means senior engineers just steer these things in such a way that like they can accomplish incredible feats in their little time.”

“It's not junior engineers. It's not non-engineers. They're all vibe coding. It's senior engineers, senior leaders people who have, so basically you can narrow it down to. 12 to 15 years of experience. They hate vibe coding and they hate AI and they're online g…”

“Gone are the days where a product manager is just writing a spec and sort of giving a set of instructions or requirements for somebody else to go build, like a product manager necessarily now can be empowered to generate an app and get it to 40, 50 in some cas…”

“When we think of the best partners we've worked with, I don't think the models are doing what they do anytime soon. And I think what's interesting is I think the role of law firm partners actually doesn't change that much in the same way. I don't think the rol…”

“Even in our own company, it's been way easier to get new grads and early talent just, like, be much more AI native than I have to, like, push really hard on the senior engineers and others.”

“Or when our company have seen us the way they work, as they told me is they work completely different now. I like, so they actually restructured engineering org so that like they get more senior engineers should be more in the peer review. Because they like to…”

“Which again, I think reinforces the like, the importance of senior engineers is not going down. It's never been more competitive for us to hire someone good.”

“There's a challenge for our industry in that we do see kind of slightly bipolar results for these tools in the hands of a senior engineer who can tell good code from bad code. They're very, very powerful, but for graduate engineers, for junior engineers, ah, t…”

“By and large, I would say, on average, as a group, the senior engineers underrate what AI can do for them and stick to their existing workflows.”

“The junior mid-level engineers are able to be a lot more efficient, feel like they're able to actually learn by having the AI suggest code. So I'm seeing it a little bit more of the opposite that it's actually Up-leveling a lot of the mid-level engineers, the …”

“A product owner is at one extreme. And honestly, That is a role in a delivery process that has no business being a dedicated person really doesn't. And most teams I know the senior engineer could do it better anyway.”

“Most senior ones take around maybe between 15 and 20,000 dollars per month.”

“If you're a product company, you have someone, something that that developers want to work on, you would have a high chance of paying less. You would have a high chance of paying, I don't know maybe three to four to 5000 dollars per, per, per month. If you wor…”

“People who are fresh out of university and boot camps actually in many cases, because they've been practicing, are better at the kind of problem that gets asked in an interview than your very senior, you know, eight, 10 years of experience at that large compan…”