'Full Stack Engineer' is a problem because it assumes that you're an end-to-end expert and that you're equally happy working on backend or frontend applications

'Full Stack Engineer' is a problem because it assumes that you're an end-to-end expert and that you're equally happy working on backend or frontend applications. I've spent 80% of my career working on backend systems and 20% on the frontend. I consider myself to be a rare bird in that while I'm most comfortable with backend systems development, I do actually enjoy delving into frontend work. That doesn't mean I'm going to do things the same way or as well as a dedicated frontend software engineer. I'll get the job done though. Most of the folks I know are "allergic" to either frontend or backend work. Can they do it? If forced to, yes they can. But they won't be happy doing it and they may not do it well or it may take them a long time to do the work. In all of the teams where full-stack has been attempted to be forced on us, we always wound up naturally reverting to our preferred tier once the manager found another idea to be distracted by.