Are you Senior or Junior?

So what you think about yourself ? Are you senior or junior in your professional field of experience? – hum, this is the question which I just asked to myself as well and speaking truthfully I ain’t able to answer it appropriately because I found a wide range of variation in it globally, damn its varies a lot from country to country.

Specifically lets talk about the big track of IT and more specifically about its most gleaming part i.e. software development. You may find a wide range of Developer claiming to be as senior ,mediocre or junior but the main thing what the market around those people appraise them.

Well, for this I searched some American, Indian and Pakistani job portal and some mailing lists as well & come up with some interesting results. In US the market of software development rated you senior only if you have minimum 7 to 8 year of development experience & mediocre if you lies between the range of 3 to 6 years of experience and those guys who have 1 to 2 years of experience are rated as college developer.
Not surprisingly at all, but I found the same market ranking in India’s software development market as well, but the employer are very much touchy while hiring college developers because they never stuck at one place and switch jobs almost 6 to 7 times in one fiscal year. No doubt there’s a loads and loads of work at India’s software development market and that’s the reason why huge hiring is always going on there - Specially for the college developers [I hope the same will happen soon for Pakistani college developers as well –inshAllah ]. Just Imagine according to some reports there are 100 to 200 college developers works [that mean hired] for one big project in India.

Finally, now come to Pakistani software development market you may find a big fluctuation here, sometimes you see an ad in news paper that the employer is asking for senior developer with at least 2 year of experience and some times they need at least with 4 years. But Its very rare that you find any call for 7 to 8 year experienced developer. Eventually what I vaguely conclude is that the developer of 1 year of experience in Pakistan ranked as junior or college developer & mediocre if 2 years of experience and the seniority start from 3 to 4 years of work experience.
Hum.I have more to talk on it but inshAllah in next post.