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I worked at a small company for 7 years and had to work with databases, server management, product ownership, front-end/back-end, styling etc. With only 4 devel

I worked at a small company for 7 years and had to work with databases, server management, product ownership, front-end/back-end, styling etc. With only 4 developers, we all were expected to do everything. I always thought this was normal expectation for a full-stack developer. Then I switched jobs to a bigger organization and became surprised by the number of people who claim to be full-stack but are uncable of developing an application from nothning.

mhss 4y ago
This is very common coming from small shops and moving to larger orgs. I am happy to have started my career gradually going from very small to medium to larger orgs. I think it's made me a much more well rounded dev. A lot of people that go straight into very large organizations have the disadvantage of narrowly focusing on a piece of software and often their learning is slower because of organizational complexity. At (good) smaller companies you have much more freedom to experiment and make mistakes, which is essential for learning fast.