[william45123]

I have encountered the same problem but as a FE engineer who doesn’t do backend. (we should hang out)

I think some shops just really want everyone to be interchangeable as a way of ensuring no one becomes too niche and therefore irreplaceable. i.e. it’s a control thing.

My suggestion would be to look for info early on in the vetting process for stuff like how titles work there and how teams are organized. possibly ask to talk with other potential teammates or other employees.

[curtisblaine]

I saw front end people on rota call for microservices. When one microservice failed, the FE devs would be alerted, wake up, agree that the microservice was indeed not running and immediately proceed to page the backend developers. I guess they were on rota just to share the misery.

[william45123]

Not me 2:00am slack posting links to DataDog where our DB latency is at 30 seconds "is this bad?" while I hotfix better 500 handling to the client app.

[throwawaybcknd]

> I have encountered the same problem but as a FE engineer who doesn’t do backend. (we should hang out)

Maybe we should. I know a good ops guy, we've got a minimum viable tech team.

> My suggestion would be to look for info early on in the vetting process for stuff like how titles work there and how teams are organized.

That's a good idea. I usually rely on the hiring manager's job about some parts of the work, but then ask the team about other parts; I should probably move this to the "other parts".