[greenyoda]

"Full-stack engineer: fancy name for a true engineer that actually went to college and studied for at least 4-5 years to become one."

No, "full-stack" means that someone knows both the back-end and front-end pieces of the technology stack.

You can certainly be a real engineer without being "full-stack". For example, I like back-end development and have little interest in becoming an expert on the ever-changing browser or mobile environments (although I have a generalist's understanding of the technology, since my code needs to interact with it). I'm happy to leave that to the equally talented engineers who like that stuff better than back-end stuff, and in a company that's bigger than a startup, there will be plenty of specialists on both sides.