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Skills your front end engineer should have?
- wcameron 11y agohttp://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developers-2015/ http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end... covers it better than I could.
- dpeck 11y agoMore than they do. Every time I've looked to hire one its disappointing that they're so un-rounded in their skillset.
- nphyte 11y agoCould you be specific. if you were hiring what's your dream candidate like?
- dpeck 11y agoI think that I perhaps had unrealistic expectations. I have a CS degree and think of things like for loops and basic manipulations of data, say the kind of thing that would happen in a .erb or whatever template file to be required for anyone doing front end work, but the only people able to do that weren't able/willing to do anything on the visual side that wasn't explicitly called out in a photoshop comp. If you're on the frontend I expect you to act as a bridge from the server to the user and have some feet in both worlds. At least being able to understand controller code, etc, but with the JS-wow hotness of the day there seems to be a desire to put a hard line on both sides and only deal with comps that a designer has given and and API docs from the backend dev. I don't think this works in any midsized or smaller company.
- iends 11y agoYou're probably not paying enough.
- dpeck 11y agothat was only an issue once when a guys previous company was bought by Oracle and they offered him a load of money and paid for him to go to grad school. In general though, compensation was never a problem.