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Another specialist/generalist vector I've encountered... at a lot of startups, they're looking for a "full stack developer" (generalist). Which is fine when sta
by beat 11y ago
Another specialist/generalist vector I've encountered... at a lot of startups, they're looking for a "full stack developer" (generalist). Which is fine when staff is limited. But when you're a big company and you have a product that costs a thousand dollars a minute when it's offline and the database crashes, who do you want looking at the database... the girl who's lived and breathed nothing but Oracle for the past 15 years, or that full stack dude?