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in reply to how to become senior programmer?

Basically, you need to stay alive. I know of only one case where an exceptionally talented and knowledgeable acquaintance with open source credentials started work as a senior programmer (in fact, CTO in this case) at a well funded, well backed startup. In larger companies, that would be much less likely. During your time as a (?:junior)? programmer, don't do anything particularly stupid.