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> If anyone has any helpful advice, I would love to hear it.

Skip the Junior part, go for mid level and find a way to justify it. Somehow show that you already have 2 years of experience and you now qualify as mid.

I'm not saying "lie", but I'm also not saying not to.

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Wouldn't you be cheating yourself out of any kind of mentorship one would expect as a junior (in addition to lying and putting yourself in a position to slow your team down r/t lack of expected experience) ? Title inflation is a thing, but maybe they're not "totally" arbitrary.

In his case not so much, i think he is competent based oh his portfolio.

I have been applying for jobs that aren't explicitly junior. I know that "years of experience" is really just a wish list. I have used coding at work for several years, although i've never had a "software engineer" title.

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