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No. "Full-stack" has become trendy as slightly-with-it recruiters realize that the not-with-it rest of the corporate world encourages a certain combination of
by michaelochurch 14y ago
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"Full-stack" has become trendy as slightly-with-it recruiters realize that the not-with-it rest of the corporate world encourages a certain combination of tight specialization and mediocrity in which people say, "I don't do 'back-end' " and that people who've been steeped in that world for a few years are undesirable employees. As it becomes an HRism, I'm starting to think that the new rule is: if you say "full stack", you're not.
I aspire to be competent over all sorts of technologies, but my definition of "the stack" is pretty expansive and I have a lot of gaps to fill.
Also, you're not a renaissance person if you don't understand science, mathematics, economics, history, art and literature (and much more) to, at least, a passable degree.
- jedbrown 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- aardvark179 14y agoCouldn't agree more. It seems to be used to mean knowledge of some of the stack on a front end, and some of the stack on a back end, and some of the stack of whatever runs your database, and the idea that this is unusual and special. I've never described myself as a full stack engineer, but have worked on front ends, back ends, underlying language implementations, underlying database implementations, and so on, and I just consider myself a (hopefully good) engineer.
- cnunciato 14y agoI think the point is that the kind of full-stack developer the OP is describing, does.