Comment by sidlls
5 years ago
> I don't know why full stack webdevs are paid so poorly.
In my experience it’s because they either don’t really know any of the stack well enough to do more than implement someone else’s design, or else they don’t know most of the stack well enough to do even that without very poor, confusing implementations.
I’ll take a backend person and a backend person willing to do front end work before a full stack “dev” any day of the week. And I’d take the full stack dev before a front end one.
> And I’d take the full stack dev before a front end one
So you think one person can't know the entire stack but also half of the stack is not complex/important enough to be worth specializing in?
No, I just would have to think really hard to recall a front end specialist who didn’t get bogged down in fad chasing or wrote code better than a backend dev half-assing it.
I would say then that your project is simple enough that an underpaid full-stack dev is exactly what you want.
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