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Unrelated to the question: > "I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now..." As a 35 year old full stack engineering
by sky_rw 6y ago
Unrelated to the question:
> "I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now..."
As a 35 year old full stack engineering manager I can say that anybody rolling their eyes at that statement needs to check themselves. Lately I've been getting smoked by a 21 year old software dev. She's constantly teaching me things and improving my code. Frameworks and technologies evolve so fast that age is a very poor metric of practical knowledge.
- slow_donkey 6y agoI believe the emphasis was on "full stack engineer" which is why the justification was experience with both frontend and backend engineering. Depending on which circles you run with, full stack is usually seen as misnomer because it colloquially refers to frontend engineers with the bare knowledge of backend in Node.
- jhgb 6y agoIs that really a matter of age, or of experience? Surely your own code didn't deteriorate since you were 21 year old yourself. Or is this largely about newfangled things that didn't exist back then?
- sky_rw 6y agoAge and on-paper experience are incomplete measures of intelligence and capability.