I can see folks looking down on Frontend Engineering, why is it so? Is there a pay gap between frontend and backend.
You can surviive easily till 12-13 years growing from jr soft engg to soft engg, sse, associate tech lead , tech lead .
Post that you learn manament and move to frontend engg manager role, or IC role.
Once you reach 8+years, you need to diversify your skills with infra side as well as cloud as a frontend developer like aws, azure, in infra- ci/cd, kubernetics, architecture, system design, etc
Side by side you ll have to up your game in looking at the bigger picture apart from fulfilling your role as sse
Isn't this true for a backend/devops Engineer as well?
They get into it much more before we do.
Plus they have a lot of more things to do as compared to FE guys.
Give some css task to a backend dev and watch em hilariously fail. Anyway, every role has a future granted u r in right company… FE has a low barrier entry, bootcamps and old folks stereotyping which feels like reduced value. But time is different now so let’s see how things change
I don’t think there is any pay gap till mid-senior level roles. But after 6-8 years the choices and opportunities do get limited to an extent for a FE.
Yes & Yes
Do you feel like your work as a frontend engineer is meaningful and impactful enough towards the product you are building?
I feel like in most companies BE work is treated as more important. Most of your performance bottlenecks and pr...
Me - a full stack dev who finds both of them to be meaningless. Just like my life.
Hi folks, I am a frontend engineer. A bit of background about me:
Currently I am doing an SLI in the frontend team ( React ) at a good company, So for the full time roles after college should I stay in frontend or look for backend opportunities ? What is better for the future ?
P.S. I have worked on ...
