When will they ever learn
When will they ever leeeeaaarn
Joined as a frontend developer, became a fullstack in two years, and now they expect me to handle mobile app development with Flutter too. Expectations from companies, especially smaller ones, are very high.
I’m not sure. I’ve rarely seen a straightforward frontend job posting unless it’s from a large organization.
I started off as a frontend developer and was very interested in backend work. From my first job, I’ve worked as a ‘full stack’ developer and recently started tackling DevOps tasks too. Currently, I’m doing a lot of API development with Python, taking care of critical frontend tasks, and handling DevOps responsibilities like setting up monitoring for our services. I find the latter two roles challenging, and I wonder how valuable that experience will be for future job applications, but it’s what the company needs and I see it as a chance to learn new skills.
It’s possible all the bootcamp grads took over those jobs
Issues with IE6 are no longer relevant, and that’s what happened. So now we’re back to a full-stack focus. The split between frontend and backend was a short-lived phase in the early web 2.0. Over the years, building software has just been building software, whether from the DOS days or into Android development. Only the web needed specialized ‘frontend’ experts because browsers acted so differently from each other. That’s not the case anymore.
@Rory
I appreciate your answer, but I’d like to add that frontend roles became serious when the JavaScript ecosystem advanced and became a mix of good and bad. It got tougher to maintain full stack work while focused on single-page applications. Hence separation of roles made sense for many companies.
@Rory
IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11 and the early Edge versions are saying ‘What about me?’
Plus, new developers keep suggesting ‘Safari is the new Internet Explorer…’ so there’s that.