>> (Unless if the job description is for front-end development only, in which I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not.) > The browse

>> (Unless if the job description is for front-end development only, in which I'm less qualified to say whether a CS education is needed or not.) > The browser is an extremely complex platform, at least rivaling an operating system. If you're going to argue that advanced knowledge of a platform is required for non-frontend work, you should be comfortable making the argument for frontend. I didn't read the quoted statement as a position against front-end devs needing CS knowledge, but rather a lack of position in the matter due to the author's ignorance. FWIW as someone working in both the front- and back-end, the front-end stuff can definitely have the same amount of complexity.