I have been working in only back-end stuff for a while. Is it recommended switching to a more full stack role? I don't mind doing some frontend work although I am not a big fan of it. I was wondering if it'll be difficult to switch later on if there is zero frontend experience on resume. Thoughts? :)
It likely depends on the nature of the backend work. Thereās a lot of good pure backend jobs, but the backend experience that āfull stackā people tends to have, is sometimes on the shallow side (although some are very solid all around).
You seem to not have worked enough to understand there is no way back to front end, only as a secondary skill.. There is infrastructure, dbs, networking and indefinite optimizations with service meshes and machine learning and what not
I tried front end when IE 6 was around. Said fook eet and never got back to it. Even when everything started to get better. I just always had enough stuff to do with server side. DB optimizations, API, SDK for that API. Refactoring and shit. Then front end got crazy. Every week new framework. By the time I finish typing this some new JS framework will come out. Full stack was created back when ppl wrote PHP and knew jQuery. And was not afraid to float boxes. Nova day you simply donāt have time to do both. Unless you really want to shuffle around a lot.
True that! I don't want to switch per se. Just curious if it'll limit future opportunities. But then as you mentioned, I agree that there are many Backend only roles too!
Plenty of back end jobs. I agree with the above poster
It also depends on your longer term career ambitions. If you want to get deep into technical stuff, enjoy shaving milliseconds off requests, back end is the way to go; if you want to have more product influence, want to see your work directly impacting millions of people, then full stack.
I wanted to work in a finance industry especially in trading related companies. So I joined a small company that built a trading platform. Transitioning from a fullstack engineer to a back-end engineer was not difficult but for me it was boring. After 8 months, I decided to come back as a fullstack engineer.
Nothing against trying but I canāt do frontend. Just never able to sit down and write frontend code.