Do people respect front end developers? Is there a hierarchy among engineers and who is valued most in the process?
Why wouldn’t they be respected? There is a hierarchy among engineers. The ones that produce the least bugs and take on the most PR’s without leaving lame comments are valued the most.
Respect is earned. Would you say janitors are respected? I respect janitors that do a good job. If someone disrespects a janitor because of their line of work then that person has real problems.. I urge you to reconsider your views on respect. That being said there's a lot of disrespectful people in tech. Especially in services. Ymmv
No, they are less than humans, the vegetarian equivalent of developers. Posers. real developers create backend and stream their output as 1 & 0s
I'm a front end developer but I tell everybody I work at Jiffy lube so they won't redicule me for not doing backend / real software development
Blind would say no.