Across several companies, I observe:
Same TC as backend.
Less oncall issues.
Better WLB
Any1 make the jump to FE for these reasons?
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Incoming E6 FEE, 235/1400/100/20%
Bottom line - FE engineers are paid on par with SWE at FAANG. A lot of reasons for this.
Good front end devs with senior level experience are very rare and currently at high demand.
Also, there is a lot more tech churn in the FE is constant. Take testing libraries for an example. Since starting 2015, I have used Jasmine, mocha/chai/Sinon, karma, protractor for angular. Those have been dumped in favor for jest, enzyme, and testing library (yeah, thatโs the name of it) and cypress will likely be the new and shiny hotness. In ruby, you have rspec. In Java, j unit and mockito.
And then there are module bundlers - web pack, roll up, snow pack, vite.
And css - sass, less, css-in-js, scoped css, css modules.
I havenโt even mentioned frameworks yet. React and redux code from 2 years ago is effectively deprecated. Get the point?
Also, more churn in front end design. As mentioned previously, every PO canโt help to change design mid sprint. Move this button here, some extra margin there, etc. also means more work for me.
Mix in the fact that a lot of bad front end code has been cobbled together by fresh boot camp grads and will need maintenance / refactoring, and you have the recipe for ideal job security and great TC.