> I just hate the concept that there exists such a stratification, such as the "front end" developer. I disagree, and think this industry needs more stratifica

> I just hate the concept that there exists such a stratification, such as the "front end" developer. I disagree, and think this industry needs more stratification. I started out as an electrical engineer. Unless you hare hiring new grads, you do not hire an "electrical engineer", you hire a "power engineer", "analog engineer", "ASIC engineer", "RF engineer", "digital engineer", or one of the specializations I have forgotten. They are, fundamentally, all electrical engineers. They are not, however, interchangeable. You could certainly cross-train over a period of years, but it still takes those years of experience to gain the specialization. That stratification does not necessarily imply one specialty is better than another. Some get paid more because there are fewer of them.