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Role titles and your honest level
Start by choosing your : one or two job titles, such as engineer or engineer. Then pick your honest , meaning how senior you can credibly be hired as: intern, junior, mid or senior. Titles vary between companies.
"Software Engineer II" at one company is "Senior" at another. So judge a posting by its responsibilities and the years of experience it asks for, not its label. Everything later depends on this choice.
It decides the keywords in your resume, the companies you list, the pay you ask for and the rounds you prepare.
Common trapaiming at every title at once, which gives you a vague resume that fits nothing well, or claiming a level your experience cannot back up in a technical round.
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