Is it me or lately developers that call themselves senior doesn't even know how to use git properly, doesn't have proper troubleshooting techniques and have to be spoon fed several times?

It's crazy to me that they are still hired and working.

Not knowing git could be from using SVN all their lives but the latter two are super unforgivable.
Now if they suck at understanding repos in general, then yeah. They do NOT deserve that title

I did far more senior tasks at my first job than the job I got where I was titled senior... and I got a lot of disrespect at the first job even though I ran everything

everything is an inversion

honestly if you wanna pay me a lot of money and have no work for me seems fine by me

Time based auto-promotion

@TheBeardedOne this 100x this, and then you find new titles like lead, chicken-and-egg problems

@BordedDev it's kinda crazy. I don't consider myself senior and then one day recruiters just started reaching out for senior positions

We have Columbian dev. He is a senor dev. He says hola every morning.

Some "Senior" got hired , because this simple formula:

Talk > What they know and can do

Skill of bootlicking > Work

In Chinese we have something called "瞒天过海“ which means this "senior" cast a fake persona telling people how great senior he is to get the position.

other words , fake it until make it a reality.

@TheBeardedOne Yup, I considered myself mediocre for the longest time - good but "anyone can be as good as me", now I have the title but don't really know how to judge it as a role (e.g. code, social, knowledge that kind of stuff). It was something I wanted though

@BordedDev the thing that makes it hard for me to qualify that it's different everywhere. Some places will never change your title if you stay. Other places will see you have any prior experience and label that senior.

I had an interview after my first job where they basically wanted a dev to join the support team and turn it into DevOps (yea I know) and they described me as "quite senior with the technical stuff" but I only had 18 months experience and tbh it was pretty low quality experience.

The next job I had, I was still junior in title and the intermediate got bumped up from junior purely because I, someone more junior than him, was joing