Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
&gt;I don&#x27;t know why full stack webdevs are paid so poorly. No really, they should be paid like half a mil a year just base salary. Fuck they have to understand both front end AND back end AND how different browsers work AND networking AND databases AND caching AND differences between web and mobile AND omg what the fuck there&#x27;s another framework out there that companies want to use? Seriously, why are webdevs paid so little.<p>Full stack compresses two jobs into one. It&#x27;s purely for cost-savings. They&#x27;re paid so little because companies revert to &quot;well, you can still only do 8 hours, so you do half as much of each&quot;, but really that&#x27;s just them trying to weasel out of paying for knowledge. They also blur the lines by putting full stack along-side other devs, even though the other devs may not have invested the same time to gain as much knowledge as full stack.<p>When you take a full stack job, you undervalue your knowledge (and the time invested) and are selling it for roughly half of what it&#x27;s worth.