[coumbaya]

I'm flabbergasted by the majority of answer there, and wondering if I've been extremely lucky. I've never even heard of a (senior) BE asked to do some FE work. I've done like one FE PR at each startup I've worked at (granted it's not that many startups, but all under 60 devs), and each where just like small translation or removing a button, idk. To me they are widely different jobs, but I guess it depend on the stack and scale. I would've reacted the same way as you I think, or maybe just played (or really be) absolutely dumb reharding those asks.

[al_borland]

My management expected everyone, who already had a full time job working on their main product, to also be a full stack react+flask dev on the side, to push the CIO’s pet project. It failed within 18 months due to licensing costs. We switched to some other platform, so all that work, if it was even done, was thrown away and had to be done again on a new platform.

I tried explaining to my boss that a BE dev isn’t going to jump into react in a day or two, but the expectations had been set. The principal architect on the project also quit, came back, rebranded everything for no reason, then quit again. It’s been a mess.

Luckily, I was able to avoid getting too deep into it, as it was obviously going to fail, and I was able to kick the can down the road until it did.