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Stop just using “Front end” or “Back end” to describe the Engineering you like

10 pointsby lord_sudoover 4 years ago

2 comments

anthonygdover 4 years ago
I really hope this trend for imperative titles ends soon.<p>I&#x27;m happy the author found terms that line up with their goals&#x2F;interests. If they want to share their thought process, that&#x27;s interesting as well.<p>If they tell me to comply with their opinion (which I disagree with), it moves from interesting to irritating. Sure, it&#x27;s an emotional reaction but that&#x27;s a giant part of communication.<p>FWIW - here&#x27;s my complaint: if your code isn&#x27;t in support of a product (or R&amp;D for a product) it&#x27;s a weekend play project. I don&#x27;t mean that to be any more condescending than the &quot;elegant code is the end&quot; bit. As stated those Product&#x2F;Infrastructure terms don&#x27;t apply to how I think about roles and are just not useful. &quot;Frontend&quot;&#x2F;&quot;backend&quot; aren&#x27;t remotely complete, but they are fairly accurate and useful.
angryasianover 4 years ago
couldn&#x27;t you just figure out where you align by reading the job description. Ultimately front end and back end have different skill sets.