&quot;Full stack engineer&quot; is the new &quot;Coding Ninja&quot;. It doesn&#x27;t mean anything.  It is most often used by non-technical founders who just want to hire one guy to do the work of 3.<p>As you said &quot;How full is the stack?&quot; Do you need to know how to setup and administer servers? Do you need DevOps skills? Do you need to be able to write backend&#x2F;frontend code? Do you need to know how to design the UX as well?<p>I systematically ignore all positions for &quot;full stack engineer&quot; because in my mind it translates to &quot;we don&#x27;t know computers but we have a Great Idea(tm) and we just want some nerdy guy to handle all these computer thingies for us&quot;.