Title: I&#x27;m a professional web developer of 7 years that, if taken at the superficial face value of how many years I&#x27;ve worked, is one that is expected to be mid-level or approaching senior-level.<p>The problem is, my career growth feels stunted.<p>All of this seems to be confirmed by interview feedback I&#x27;ve gathered recently from several companies. The gist of it is, I show knowledge in a couple of topics, but don&#x27;t show a lot of depth in any of them. I&#x27;ve shown capability to perform my work as expected and told that I write clean code, but that I can&#x27;t grasp the &quot;big picture&quot; ideas of software development better, or the minutiae of a given programming language.<p>So with this in mind, would it be possible to go back to a junior position?<p>I prefer to do so in a larger company, because I have never been actually mentored or have much guidance from a senior dev. In two places, I was the only programmer around.<p>The problem here is that at showing 7 years of experience, it sounds like a turn-off for many companies if I show that I&#x27;m only capable at a junior-level. Perhaps removing my oldest jobs might help. How would you approach this?
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