What Hiring Managers Miss When They Say 'Too Senior'
Konstanty Sliwowski Published on: 15/01/2026
When a hiring manager says someone is 'too senior,' they're rarely making a skills-based judgment. What they're actually signaling is discomfort. Discomfort with experience they don't know how to assess, with salary expectations they haven't validated, or with seniority that challenges their own.
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