Comment by lylejantzi3rd

I'm surprised nobody's talking about the hireability of FE vs BE engineers. The specialist vs generalist debate has been raging on for multiple decades now and the general conclusion is that only early stage startups hire generalists. Everybody else wants a specialist.

I'll go one farther: nobody hires senior FE engineers.

FE is perceived as having a lower skill ceiling than BE[0]. I rarely see an FE position (or a "senior" FE position) require more than 3 years of experience. And can you blame them when FE technologies churn so much faster than BE ones? It's still fairly common to have a decade old Java backend running against an equally old postgresql database. Who still runs jquery (other than levelsio)?

[0]: I do not agree with this, but it's a common perception.