Comment by fmakunbound
5 years ago
> front end AND back end AND... AND... AND... AND... AND... AND... Seriously, why are [full stack] webdevs paid so little.
Two reasons: 1. everyone calls themselves this these days, and 2. they are often quite weak in each of those parts of the “full stack”
Yeah. I'm nominally a full-stack developer, but I know fuck-all about React; I can maintain an existing project, but it would take me a significant amount of effort and googling to kickstart one from scratch, and diagnosing and debugging issues and writing effective tests is always a struggle.
YUP. They're "two jobs", but I've yet to work with a full stack developer who is master of either. Most commonly they're great at front end, and have a very superficial understanding of how to do anything on the backend, and even then the backend basically has to be node.js for them to contribute. No way am I getting them to change the database schema or build a new service.