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Blog posts like this make me feel concerned that I'm becoming a generalist right now and I'm not sure I can avoid it. I'm on a really small team doing developme

Blog posts like this make me feel concerned that I'm becoming a generalist right now and I'm not sure I can avoid it. I'm on a really small team doing development of both front end (Javascript/HTML/CSS) and backend (PHP for our back end, SQL db, node server for websocket updates and some other stuff). I feel like I don't spend enough time doing any one thing in order to be considered a specialist at any of it, just passable enough to get done whatever needs to be done at the time.

aaronem 13y ago
That's called "full-stack web developer".
- mjmahone17 13y ago
  And lots of companies specifically advertise that they want you to be able to work across the stack: if they only ever have front-end and back-end engineers, how will they fight problems that develop at the intersection of the two? Being a generalist can be a specialty. In a lot of respects, that's what a PM is, too.
  - caoilte 13y ago
    by talking to eachother?
    - mgkimsal 13y ago
      They need to have enough experience in the other side of things to know the language. I can talk at someone all day long, but if I only speak English and they only speak Dutch, it's going to take a hell of a lot longer to get anything done.