Yeah in my recent experience juniors are people who don’t know basic engineering yet and seniors are people who can actually complete a task in their own (with most still having little knowledge of actual advanced programming concepts.)

This is what an industry of outsourcing to “contractors” has done. Companies that aren’t ran by tech people have no idea how to actually hire tech roles and are trusting the contracting firm owners, who I’ve found also have little knowledge how to hire for tech.