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I was in this situation a few years ago and was really worried about not having seniors.

Something that turned out to be extremely valuable was having the chance to make lots of technical decisions (many big, many teeny tiny) and then stick around long enough to evaluate them afterwards.

A lot of things worked out great, and a lot of things didn’t! And now I have a decent amount of insight and opinions on those sorts of things. And those insights getting me a lot of respect at my new job! Which is only my second job, after being in the hot seat at my first, which was a startup.

So my advice is try to at least stay around to evaluate your own decision making. You will end up challenging a lot of your own beliefs. I think it changed me more than anything else at that job.



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