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by marcosdumay 237 days ago
Nobody is hiring generalists nowadays.

At the same time, the incredible complexity of the software infrastructure is making specialists more and more useless. To the point that almost every successful specialist out there is just some disguised generalist that decided to focus their presentation in a single area.
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NDizzle 237 days ago
Maybe everyone is retaining generalists. I keep being given retention bonuses every year, without asking for a single one so far.

As mentioned below, never labeled "full stack", never plan on it. "Generalist" is what my actual title became back in the mid 2000s. My career has been all over the place... the key is being stubborn when confronted with challenges and being able to scale up (mentally and sometimes physically) to meet the needs, when needed. And chill out when it's not.

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zer00eyz 237 days ago
> Nobody is hiring generalists nowadays.

What?

I throw up in my mouth every time I see "full stack" in a job listing.

We got rid of roles... DBA's, QA teams, Sysadmins, then front and back end. Full Stack is the "webmaster" of the modern era. It might mean front and back end, it might mean sysadmin and DBA as well.

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marcosdumay 237 days ago
Even full stack listings come with a list of technologies that the candidate must have deep knowledge of.

> We got rid of roles... DBA's, QA teams, Sysadmins, then front and back end.

On a first approximation, those roles were all wrong. If your people don't wear many of those hats at the same time, they won't be able to create software.

But yeah, we did get rid of roles. And still require people to be specialized to the point it's close to impossible to match the requirements of a random job.

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