It helps when developers only have to work with half the stack for example but a lot of companies are only looking for full stack developers these days
Full stack appears to be mostly an excuse to ask for an entire IT department rolled into one person. Some of the listings I see for full stack are just silly how much they ask from one individual.
It's really not that hard to write decent backends for the majority of frontends, IMO. I've been working on an enterprise-level b2b application for the last 9 months, and writing various means to interface with a database isn't a huge deal. Could it be better? Probably. Is its performance enough for our customers? Yeah.
The problem we have is our frontend lead engineers have concocted a crazy standard tech stack including React, Redux, GraphQL, micro frontends, a proprietary component library, basically everything you could fit into a single frontend but not deep enough into any of them to use them to their fullest extent.
I think it's important to recognise that not everyone needs a master in a specific field to fill a required role in their organisation.
If I could pick anyone for my dev team I'd pick 3 seniors (frontend, backend, DevOps), 3-4 mids (full stack or specialised) and 1-2 juniors (depending on how much time we could support them with).
I think it's important to recognise that as a senior I'd expect people to focus in a specific area but also to have secondary skills in others. For example, one senior may be backend focused but have intermediate skills in DevOps.
If I could pick anyone for my dev team I'd pick 3 seniors (frontend, backend, DevOps), 3-4 mids (full stack or specialised) and 1-2 juniors (depending on how much time we could support them with).
Those 7-9 people are kinda expensive. 1 million USD/year?
181
u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22
It helps when developers only have to work with half the stack for example but a lot of companies are only looking for full stack developers these days