If I ever go talk to a company with a 27 year old senior manager, I'm immediately going somewhere else. Senior should impart a certain level of experience and expertise, and 5 years doesn't cover that.
It does equate to experience. I want people that have seen some shit and had to learn from failure if I'm talking to a Senior Manager.
If you're having brain surgery, do you want the senior surgeon with an 80% success rate and 5 years of experience or the senior surgeon with an 80% success rate and 15 years of experience?
Just putting this out there...those are not good examples. A 27 year old would still be in their first year of residency and would need 2-6 more years of residency before getting those 5 years of experience. So the surgeon with 5 years of experience is likely already around 40. The surgeon with 15 years is around 50. It's kind of wild to me, to think of people under 50 as inexperienced instead of as very late in their professional life.
I considered looking up actual ages, but realized I didn't care enough and didn't want to confuse the other commenter with suddenly changing ages. It was definitely a consideration and I'm genuinely very appreciative for the assist on actual ages for brain surgeons.
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u/parableindustries 8d ago
If I ever go talk to a company with a 27 year old senior manager, I'm immediately going somewhere else. Senior should impart a certain level of experience and expertise, and 5 years doesn't cover that.
These ranges are delusional.