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This was my experience with the job I'm at now. I was hired as a "full stack" developer and when I got here I learned I was the only one on my team comfortable working on the back-end. The team is small and very much the opposite of the ideal scenario he talks about in the article (people have their specialties and are only willing to pick up work within those specialties). This has actually given me an opportunity to create a niche for myself where I am able to jump into just about any project at any point in the stack.