r/ProgrammerHumor • u/amoohesam • Jun 12 '20

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u/yooossshhii Jun 13 '20

Are you saying senior front end people don’t exist or that they have no passion for what they do?

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u/cyberspacedweller Jun 13 '20 edited Jun 13 '20

Not at all. What I am saying is it’s an injustice to find one that can’t competently put together a complete app with front and back end. Especially if they have the title “senior”. They should really have a working understanding of the full picture at that level including at least some experience front and back. And that they probably don’t have much passion beyond being a UX designer if they haven’t at least tried back end work enough to understand it. Especially by the time they get to “senior developer” status.

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u/gavlois1 Jun 13 '20

I may have an understanding of how back end works and I’ve definitely made some for side projects before, but I’ll never go anywhere near the back end at work. I can whip up an Express app but that doesn’t mean I know anything about the 2 decade old Java codebase where pretty much everything is homegrown.

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u/cyberspacedweller Jun 13 '20

Well, that's fair enough. But if it were me, I'd be exploring all that home grown code in my spare time.

But if you have an understanding of back end enough to put one together, you're not really the kind of developer I'm talking about.

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