What technologies do you use as a professional developer?

Sparks wrote: »

Which is a big part of why the "senior" bit in the title isn't worth what it should be. This is a good read on what the title should mean, but doesn't.

That's a pretty good read actually, I don't think it should be judged on a timescale as well. You can see it with people who is going to be a senior engineer or tech lead type and who isn't. It all boils down to those that do, the people who just work and do their job and those who influence. Those who influence makes decisions that influence the development process and those are the senior type.

It's like when you see an opportunity for a role "...3 years C++ experience required" that's not a good indicator of how good someone is with a technology, why not let the 1 year experience guy prove himself against the 3 years experience guy. I've seen it myself, using char* when std::string is clearly the better option, raw pointers with malloc/calloc when a simple shared_ptr would have done the job, allocating arrays on the heap when a vector is a much superior option. He may have been doing it 3 years but he's been doing it 3 years badly.

BrokenArrows wrote: »

I would say my most commonly used tool is Google.

Actuall scratch what I said, mine is probably Google too