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If you can be good at front and back end and keep up with both of them simultaneously, that's great, but:

- you spend more time to keep up with both of those sectors compared to dedicated front or back end positions

- you context switch more often than dedicated positions

- you spent more time getting good at both of those things

- you removed some amount of communication overhead if there were two positions

You are definitely not being compensated for that extra work and benefit to the business given that full stack salaries are close to front end and back end position salaries.




Is it extra work though, it's not like backend engineers sit around not doing anything because they don't have FE work to do.


I vehemently refuse to do frontend...

Have I done it a lot before the SPA era? yes.

Would I be able to do a half decent job today? Probably.

Would that eat into what brainpower I currently muster to fulfill my backend role? I'm convinced of it.

Can I continue to earn a living in the current market? I'm afraid not for long...




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