The 4 Decisions That Turn 3 Years of Coding Into a Senior Salary
If you have been shipping tickets for 1 to 3 years and your title and your salary have not moved, the problem is not effort. Experience is not time. It is the number of decisions you have owned. In 75 minutes you will score yourself on the 10 questions hiring managers actually screen for, and walk out with the R.E.A.L framework you can start using on Monday. Tuesday 4 August, 7:00 PM Beirut, live only. There is no recording.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
7:00 PM Asia/Beirut
Starts in
Your Host
Sami Shames El Deen
Founder at SE² · Ex Senior SE at Murex (France) · Lead SE at Valsoft (Canada)
I spent my first two years shipping tickets and calling it experience. Someone eventually made me own the decisions, and that year did more for me than the two before it combined. I have been a Senior Software Engineer at Murex in France and a Lead Software Engineer at Valsoft in Canada. I now run SE² in Lebanon, where I train developers to own architecture, defend tradeoffs, and get paid for judgment instead of typing.
What you'll discover
Score yourself in 10 questions
The self-audit that tells you whether you have 3 years of experience or 1 year repeated 3 times. You write your number down, live, and you will know exactly where you stand by minute 30.
The R.E.A.L framework
Requirements you interrogate, Environment you design for, Alternatives you can defend, Lifecycle you own after merge. Walked end to end on one real feature you have almost certainly built before.
Why shipping more will never promote you
Your company optimizes for delivery, not for your growth. Nobody is coming to hand you decisions. What that means for the next 3 years if nothing changes.
Why you pass the CV screen and fail system design
The exact gap between what your job has asked of you and what a senior offer requires, and the shortest path to closing it.
What past attendees say
“Won 5 job offers in a single month. Now working at a US based company.”
“Two years in and still only implementing. Landed a senior role at $3,200 a month.”
“Freelancing at 1.5 years of experience. Landed a US based systems engineering role at $3,000 a month.”
“One year of experience going in. Landed a senior role at $2,000 a month and now teaches at SE².”
Frequently asked questions
No. This session assumes you already code and already have a job. Every minute of it is about the decisions your job has not handed you yet: choosing the architecture, defending the tradeoff, owning the system after merge. If you have never written code, this is the wrong session for you.
No. This runs once, live, and it is not recorded. Not as a marketing trick, but because the core of the session is a self-audit you have to do in the room, with your own score written down. If you skip it, the honest cost is another quarter of closing tickets while your title and your salary stay exactly where they are. Register now and block the 90 minutes.
You are tired because you are shipping a lot and moving nowhere. That is the whole subject of the session. Give it one Tuesday evening and you will leave with a written score, a framework, and 10 questions you can use to change what your next sprint asks of you.
Delivered in Lebanese Arabic. All slides and materials are in English.
Yes, and I state it upfront rather than ambushing you at the end. Around minute 55 I explain the SE² roadmap for people who want to go further, then we open live Q&A. The first 55 minutes stand entirely on their own whether you buy anything or not.
Register here and the Google Meet link is sent to you by email, plus reminders 48 hours, 24 hours and 1 hour before we start. Nothing to install.
The 4 Decisions That Turn 3 Years of Coding Into a Senior Salary
Tuesday, August 4 at 7:00 PM Asia/Beirut· Free