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So a Full Stack developer is just someone who likes to work in various fields of Software Engineering and has a quick and broad understanding of all kinds of pr
by Gepsens 13y ago
So a Full Stack developer is just someone who likes to work in various fields of Software Engineering and has a quick and broad understanding of all kinds of protocols, technologies and design methodologies, plus some amount of creativity ?
I don't understand why any Engineer would want their job to be any other way. Moreover, it's not like you can't be full stack anymore after you become an expert in some technology.
- bhaak 13y agoSome people have problems keeping the conceptual differences between different fields apart. So if they become experts in one domain, it hurts their expertise in other domains as the newly acquired knowledge "swaps over" and "pollutes" the others. This is contrary to my own experience but if that's how they feel ...
- Gepsens 13y agoExactly, it's like saying you'll be bad at calculus if you learn linear algebra.
- csixty4 13y agoWould you believe I was once chewed out by a co-worker for studying design instead of focusing 100% on back-end development? The full-stack label is important to me because too many developers are eager to pigeonhole themselves, and non-tech people want to apply descriptives to the people around them. People are constantly surprised to learn I can do CSS and Javascript because someone told them I was a "PHP developer". Better hire somebody who knows WordPress because I'm a "Drupal developer". Of course, my college coursework really was full-stack. I love the smell of solder in the morning.
- Gepsens 13y agoMy thoughts exactly since I've began working, I have now decided that whoever tries to put labels on me such as "Back End developer" is being problematic.