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Isn't full stack developer a common name for this? If you're contracting though, you really want to sell what business problems you can solve rather than focus

Isn't full stack developer a common name for this? If you're contracting though, you really want to sell what business problems you can solve rather than focusing on tech.

a_square_peg 6y ago
I'm not a web developer - my experience is mostly with embedded systems overlapping SW & HW functional performance in avionics, industrial robotics, and medical device etc.
- stevewodil 6y ago
  What area are you in? - There are always lots of recruiters looking to fill various robotics roles at well funded startups
- abledon 6y ago
  "Embedded systems & Robotics Generalist" sounds pretty badass to me. Technically you can even say "Embedded Systems & Robotics _Specialist_". since thats where your specializing, _not_ in web, not in angular/react, not in node/django/rails etc...
jamil7 6y ago
I dunno, full stack developer always comes across as frontend developer who also writes some node to me.
- adwww 6y ago
  Yeah I'm mostly a backend developer who also does infrastructure work, and feel "full stack" misses the mark for me too.
- C1sc0cat 6y ago
  Yeh its a grossly abused term. What it should be is you can work at /understand all the OSI TCP/IP layer's Layer 8 and 5 is a bonus - politics if you haven't heard the v old joke
- toast0 6y ago
  Yeah, when the 'full stack' name appeared, I thought it applied to me, cause I fiddle with kernels and write bad CSS and terrible JS and everything in between (most of which isn't as bad as my JS), but the term has been refined to frontend that might dabble in just enough server side to get their job done. (Which is a fine job, but not mine). If you're a pretty broad generalist, most likely the way to get new jobs is networking. Someone you've worked with is hiring and would be happy to work with you, and you have to find them (or they you).

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Isn't full stack developer a common name for this? If you're contracting though, you really want to sell what business problems you can solve rather than focus

by seanwilson 6y ago

Isn't full stack developer a common name for this? If you're contracting though, you really want to sell what business problems you can solve rather than focusing on tech.

a_square_peg 6y ago
I'm not a web developer - my experience is mostly with embedded systems overlapping SW & HW functional performance in avionics, industrial robotics, and medical device etc.
- stevewodil 6y ago
  What area are you in? - There are always lots of recruiters looking to fill various robotics roles at well funded startups
- abledon 6y ago
  "Embedded systems & Robotics Generalist" sounds pretty badass to me. Technically you can even say "Embedded Systems & Robotics _Specialist_". since thats where your specializing, _not_ in web, not in angular/react, not in node/django/rails etc...
jamil7 6y ago
I dunno, full stack developer always comes across as frontend developer who also writes some node to me.
- adwww 6y ago
  Yeah I'm mostly a backend developer who also does infrastructure work, and feel "full stack" misses the mark for me too.
- C1sc0cat 6y ago
  Yeh its a grossly abused term. What it should be is you can work at /understand all the OSI TCP/IP layer's Layer 8 and 5 is a bonus - politics if you haven't heard the v old joke
- toast0 6y ago
  Yeah, when the 'full stack' name appeared, I thought it applied to me, cause I fiddle with kernels and write bad CSS and terrible JS and everything in between (most of which isn't as bad as my JS), but the term has been refined to frontend that might dabble in just enough server side to get their job done. (Which is a fine job, but not mine). If you're a pretty broad generalist, most likely the way to get new jobs is networking. Someone you've worked with is hiring and would be happy to work with you, and you have to find them (or they you).